Re: IDE floppy drives and devfs - no device nodes if no disk loaded

[Andre Hedrick]

I have HOTSWAP ATA completed, but will release after IDF.
It will be used to blow MircoSoft out of the water at IDF.

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote:

> Derrik Pates wrote:
> 
> > Subject says about all there is to say. I have figured out that IDE drives
> > are enumerated as part of the boot-time partition check in
> > fs/partitions/check.c, but if I don't have something loaded at boot time
> > (IDE SuperDisk in PC at home, IDE Zip 100 in G3 tower at work), I never
> > get device nodes at all with devfs. Something really needs to be done
> > about this, IMHO.
> 
> hdparm's got a cmd line switch to unregiser/register and ide interface.
> It tried it *once* and it just complained about cmd line args being wrong...
> i'll have to look into it more.  when working it should help your situation.
> 
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Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
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