Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56

[Martin Dalecki]

Uz.ytkownik Guest section DW napisa?:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:36:03PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:26:10PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>>
>>>Uz.ytkownik Jan Harkes napisa?:
>>>
>>>>I'm still hoping a patch will show up that will allow me to regain
>>>>access to my compactflash cards and IBM microdrive disks. The code
>>>>currently doesn't rescan for new drives when a card has been inserted,
>>>>although it still seems to have all the necessary logic.
>>>
>>>Yes I'm fully aware of this, but the whole initialization
>>>is currently much in flux and I will return to this issue back
>>>if I think that things are in shape there. OK?
>>
>>I thought so, you already indicated so around the time that it broke.
>>There is still a 2.4 kernel when I really need to get to the data.
> 
> 
> I usually do
> 
> 	blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sde
> 
> or so. That still works for me with 2.5.13.

What you have to do by hand now is the rescanning for partition
information. What you do is triggering just that. And if I think
about it... and you know I'm evil... hmmm...
well why just don't let it be like that. It's functionally somehow the
responsibility of the /sbin/hotplug thing anyway...