Re: Rescan IDE interfaces

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:13:23 +0000 (GMT)

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> > IDE layer and PCMCIA layer both assume the other one will deal with
> > cache flushing. So the 2nd disk you insert sometimes gets tattooed
> > with pieces of the first. This is a _bad_ IDE/PCMCIA bug.
>
> Won't:
>
> umount <ide>
> sync
> <spin down & swap>
> open <ide> & ioctl to re-read paritional table (invalidates cache)
> mount
>
> work?

Until the day you forgot... yes

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