From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Daniel De Graaf <danieldegraaf@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rescan IDE interface when no IDE devices are present
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:25:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153077903.5905.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427c54c0607161212m714f4faew60b8615e06ac885a@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 14:12 -0500, Daniel De Graaf wrote:
> My laptop has only one IDE interface (/dev/hdc), which means there are
> no valid IDE block devices which can be used for HDIO_SCAN_HWIF ioctl
> to scan for the insertion of my CD-ROM drive.
>
> Are there alternate methods of invoking this ioctl, or for creating an
> open filehandle where it can be used?
If you have ide1, you have both hdc and hdd (slave of hdc) unles sit's
not really IDE ...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-16 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-16 19:12 Daniel De Graaf
2006-07-16 19:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-07-16 20:03 ` Daniel De Graaf
2006-07-16 20:24 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-26 1:28 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-26 1:57 ` Daniel De Graaf
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