Hi all,
I have a system with hot swappable bays but one of the involved
controllers apparently does not support hot swap:
(I have unfortunately an old kernel: 2.6.24)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
SATA IDE Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 18c8 [size=8]
I/O ports at 18ac [size=4]
I/O ports at 18c0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 18a8 [size=4]
I/O ports at 18b0 [size=16]
Memory at da804400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2
I have swapped the disk with a larger one (750GB -> 1TB) but it blockdev
--getsize64 still sees the old size. It has not realized I have swapped
disk.
In the past I was doing:
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdX
and it usually worked on other controllers to reread the size visible
from "blockdev --getsize" or "blockdev --getsize64". One time I think it
even worked on exactly *that* controller... but it's not working now,
it's strange.
Is there a technique, or I am out of luck?
The machine should not be rebooted
I would even enter the size manually if possible: I know how many LBA
blocks are in that disk.
Thank you
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