[KLUG Members] Reprobe IDE bus?

[Bruce Smith]

> I need to make the secondary channel on an IDE controller re-scan/probe for
> devices.  Any one got any ideas?
> 
> *There was nothing on the channel originally.

Reboot?   :-)

Actually, if you have IDE support as a _module_ you could probably
unload the module and load it again to make the kernel re-probe.
Of course, that assumes you can umount all your IDE devices first, 
and you don't have your system partition(s) on an IDE disk.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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