Try 'eject /dev/sda'. On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Rick Jones wrote:
> I have a problem doing a hot-swap of one USB drive with another, when the > two drives are different sizes. > > This appears to be because the pseudo-SCSI device entry that's created when > the first device is connected does not get cleared down when the device is > removed. The SCSI device loads the drive geometry table, and this is > persistent even when another drive is connected. The new drive's partition > info is at odds with the old geometry parameters, which leads to various > errors. > > This is on a 2.4 kernel - the distro I'm running (SME server) uses 2.4.20, > and I've tried building a 2.4.25 kernel but there's no difference in > behaviour. > > This site - http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb/ - suggests > that this behaviour is in fact by design, which seems somewhat odd to me, > unless I've misunderstood what is meant. > > Hot-plugging is a bit pointless if you can't swap devices of different > geometry, so I'm rather mystified at this restriction. Has this been fixed > in later kernels, and can a fix be hacked into 2.4? > > Or am I missing something and there's a completely different explanation? > > TIA > Rick Jones > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
