Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:53 am, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 10:32, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I read:
> > http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/kb/article.asp?aid=10744
> >
> > In my young and wreckless days, I pulled my bt848 tv card from a running
> > system (to see what chip it had so that I can insmod the correct module),
> > and put it back.  And it workded - still have that card and it's still
> > working.
> >
> > So, with linux's mount/umount tools, I would assume that it's possible
> > for hard drives on this SATA controller too?  Hell, if it can be done
> > without windows falling over... :-)
> >
> > What do you guys think?
> >
> > How do you get linux to pick up a hard drive after boot time?
> >
> > Just curious...
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Hans du Plooy
> > Newington Consulting Services
> > hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
>
> You don't, at least not with a harddrive.

Eh???    Why not just mount it??    If the drive is not in use, you can 
unmount it and then mount it again.  If it's in use....  you can't unmount 
it.



>
> --
> Ken Schneider
> unix user since 1989
> linux user since 1994
> SuSE user since 1998 (6.2)

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx  Bellaire, MI         03/24/04 10:59  +
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