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Subject: Re: IDE?  IDE-TNG driver
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You can do the switch (one way only right now) in 2.4.20-pre2-ac3.
Ultimately for 2.4 I want to get to the point where open() tries to
switch between srfoo and hdfoo and locks out the other user. For 2.5 we
can get more esoteric. 2.4 has to continue to just work