Heimo, Sorry for being so long in replying...
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 19:08, Heimo Claasen wrote: > It took some time until the CF card to IDE adapter arrived form the US > (I couldn't find any source around here or in Germany: strange ! I do wonder why they're harder to find in your market... CF is doing well world-wide as far as I know, isn't it? > [...] > While the OSs recognize it immediately as "Secondary master" [...] > it's qualification of being "hotpluggable" is highly relative. Good to know up front. Sounds like it's an "easily replaced drive" as opposed to hot-swappable then? > [...] > In linux, "umount /cf-drive" (the point where it is mounted with a > filesystem type of "msdos" in the "/" root directory), exchanging the > card with another one with other capacity, then "mount /cf-drive" > results in a hard hung machine, with the destruction of "mtab" - a > specifictly severe condition because any rebooting would result in an > inaccessible file system, the booting/mounting sequence complaining > about "missing or corrupted mtab~", and a reboot in failsafe mode, with > a following filecheck with potentially dangerous repairs is the only way > out. > > This is a serious handicap. Definitely! I'm surprised, because my own PCMCIA CF adapter works quite well, allowing swaps on the fly (after unmounting!) without problems. However, the OS is probably assuming that anything on the IDE controller isn't going to be yanked too often. Perhaps they'll consider this in the future. > [...] > I wonder if there's any means to get around it, especially in Linux (as > there it is, contrary to DOS, quite wearisome to reboot all the time.) I did have some luck with the 'plug & play' packages, but they vary by distribution.Under debian, the 'hotplug' package helped resolve some issues I was having. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
