Re: removable EIDE disks

2000-11-07 Thread Justin Schoeman
> Joe Woodward wrote: > > I am trying to use removable EIDE hard disks on a Red Hat Linux 6.1 > machine, for backup / walknet purposes. > > Issuing a BLKRRPART ioctl call immediately after changing the disk > works, but only if the new disk is no larger than the disk present at > boot time (smal

Re: removable EIDE disks

2000-11-07 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:12:00AM -, Joe Woodward wrote: > I am trying to use removable EIDE hard disks > > Issuing a BLKRRPART ioctl call immediately after changing the disk works It should not be necessary to use BLKRRPART. Does the disk advertise itself as removable? % dmesg | grep rem

Re: removable EIDE disks

2000-11-07 Thread Alan Cox
> works, but only if the new disk is no larger than the disk present at = > boot time (smaller and equal capacity disks work OK). > > How do I get Linux to recognise that the media in /dev/hdc has changed? I imagine your disks are not reporting themselves as 'removable' ? If they correctly repor

removable EIDE disks

2000-11-07 Thread Joe Woodward
I am trying to use removable EIDE hard disks on a Red Hat Linux 6.1 machine, for backup / walknet purposes.   Issuing a BLKRRPART ioctl call immediately after changing the disk works, but only if the new disk is no larger than the disk present at boot time (smaller and equal capacity disks wo