Re: removable EIDE disks

From: Andries Brouwer (aeb@veritas.com)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 07:37:09 EST


On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:12:00AM -0000, Joe Woodward wrote:

> I am trying to use removable EIDE hard disks
>
> Issuing a BLKRRPART ioctl call immediately after changing the disk works

It should not be necessary to use BLKRRPART.
Does the disk advertise itself as removable?

% dmesg | grep remov
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0

Andries
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