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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: Bernoulli/SyQuest
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <727748701.AA34908@remote.halcyon.com> <C1FCLA.1vFD@austin.ibm.com> <1993Jan27.011248.8864@colorado.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:18:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.011248.8864@colorado.edu> drew@romeo.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
- >>(2) although the Syquest is a
- >>"mountable" hard disk, the partition table on the cartridge is only
- >>read once during boot up, so you are out of luck if you want to umount
- >>and mount a different cartridge while the system is up and running.
- >
- >Nope, you can change cartridges. Sending a BLKRRPART ioctl to the disk will
- >reread the partition table.
-
- It is actually better than that. The kernel should detect a disk
- change and automatically reread the partition tables when you try and remount
- the disk. It should also flush all of the buffers and so forth, so you should
- be able to change disks without any trouble. I would like to know if this is
- not the case for anyone. I know of at least one person who indicated that
- the automatic re-read of the partition table was working correctly.
-
- -Eric
-
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- A host is a host from coast to coast.....eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
- & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
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- is busy, hung or dead................................Eric Youngdale
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