On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 01:58 +0100, Asdo wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > > ata_piix doesn't have a way to get automatically notified that the > > disk has been hotplugged since the chipset doesn't support it in this > > mode. (The ideal solution would be to switch the controller into AHCI > > mode, but I don't know if that's possible on that chipset and BIOS.) > > > > I think there are some ways to get the code to recheck the disk > > however.. you can try echoing something into the "rescan" sysfs file > > under /sys that matches your device (do a "find /sys/ -name > > scsi_level" to see what directories they're in, the rescan file is in > > the same directory). > > > > Thanks for the hint > It doesn't work unfortunately. > Echoing something into rescan makes it output (in dmesg) basically the > same message that comes out with blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdr. The size > is still detected wrong. Catting "model" also turns out that the old > brand of disk still being detected. smartctl -a does show the new disk :-) > I tried to write "1" in evt_media_change but it's permission denied :-) Right. libata caches the value from the moment it scans the device. You might be able to alter it by having the device destroyed and recreated ... that would be echoing 1 to the delete under the scsi device sysfs node and then echoing '- - -' to the host rescan parameter. If that doesn't work, libata will need to be fixed somehow because that would mean it isn't slaving it's device lifetimes to the SCSI model. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
