Manu,
>>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:31 pm, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 8:53 am, in message >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >> hope you did a >>>> >> mknod - m 0660 /dev/hdc b 22 0 >> >>Wel i have tried the mknod and it does not work either. hmmm anyone else have >>any ideas. not sure how to get it to rescan the ide interface. It sure brings >>it down great, but rescanning does not work at all. How can you force a > rescan >>of the ide interface? > > Hi, > > What I've understand from the software- Raid Howto about hot- plugging ide > drives > is that rescan of the ide bus is done with hdparm, but what misses till > now(the > date of writing is 2004- 06- 03) was the rescanning of partitions ... you > should > investigate in this direction ... > > The only working solution given work with 2.2.x kernels where you could > compile > ide support as modules : that way you had to unload then reload the module > and > it worked. Anyway, I don't know how it can work if both of your drives > (system > and extra) are ide : how to load a module from a device you have just > unloaded > the driver ??? > > May the force be with you ... Thank You for your information. Yes it does look like the concepts that i am finding are old and pre kernel 2.6, so i looking in new directions for 2.6 here. I will check with rescanning partitions. Thanks, Cameron --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
