Re: removable EIDE disks

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 07:29:49 EST


> works, but only if the new disk is no larger than the disk present at =
> boot time (smaller and equal capacity disks work OK).
>
> How do I get Linux to recognise that the media in /dev/hdc has changed?

I imagine your disks are not reporting themselves as 'removable' ? If they
correctly report removable then umount/mount would do the necessary I think.
It certainly does for magneto-optical

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