From 02c84bde234eee4f2089ac3587d138607aaec777 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:21:00 +0100 Subject: ide: update warm-plug HOWTO MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reported-by: Bruno Prémont Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- Documentation/ide/warm-plug-howto.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ide') diff --git a/Documentation/ide/warm-plug-howto.txt b/Documentation/ide/warm-plug-howto.txt index d5885468b072..98152bcd515a 100644 --- a/Documentation/ide/warm-plug-howto.txt +++ b/Documentation/ide/warm-plug-howto.txt @@ -11,3 +11,8 @@ unplug old device(s) and plug new device(s) # echo -n "1" > /sys/class/ide_port/idex/scan done + +NOTE: please make sure that partitions are unmounted and that there are +no other active references to devices before doing "delete_devices" step, +also do not attempt "scan" step on devices currently in use -- otherwise +results may be unpredictable and lead to data loss if you're unlucky -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b