[openbeos] Re: Drivers and you
- From: "Jonathan Tarbox" <jtarbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:55:43 -0500
I dunno, booting that eVilla to dos off the HD, then re-connecting the flash
rom back on so that the dos update drivers will work on the flash eprom...
i still think that out did mykol's rom swap..
-jtarbox
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manuel Jesus Petit de Gabriel" <freston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:47 AM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Drivers and you
> Btw IDE hotplug _is_ dangerous :))
> I tried once... not sure I'll again.
> was only a 80 MB hdd, and it still works, but I won't try even with my 6GB
:))
> what kind of rack did you use ?
> one that cuts power with the key ?
> special rack ? special IDE controller ?
No rack at all. On an old machine. I used to do this when doing some
bootstrap
stuff for the eVilla. For some reason IDE flash readers did not work with
test unit
i got... so i just built the boot image, dump to a spare disk, hot-unplug
stick to the
eVilla, test whatever and hotplug back to the build machine... dangerous
yes, but
having to reboot was too annoying.
I did a lot of times with success... but it is not advisable... too
dangerous... however
mykol gets the prize for most screwed idea... replacing a ROM while the
machine
was running :)
I still have the hard disk that survived all this abuse. Lately i have done
a couple
of times and i was a bit scared... maybe i'm getting old :)
manuel,
>
> En réponse à Manuel Jesus Petit de Gabriel <freston@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:26 PM
> > Subject: [openbeos] Drivers and you
> >
> >
> > > Has anyone out there had strange troubles with drivers not mounting?
> > > I had to reboot to see my USB driver show up, but Be's digit driver
> > showed
> > up right away.
> > > Then, though, I rebuilt it, renamed it and copied it into the same
> > directory (~/config/add-ons/kernel/bin)
> > > and the appropriate linking to ../dev/misc, and it didn't show up
> > until
> > after a reboot.
> > >
> > > I would have assumed that the kernel uses node monitoring for this,
> > but it
> > seems to work
> > > sporadically, if at all. ;-/ Rebooting always seems to work, though.
> >
> > Nope, the kernel does not do node monitoring in the add-ons
> > directories.
> > However, if you do
> > an 'ls' under /dev/... the kernel will peek at the add-ins directories
> > and
> > load whatever is required.
> >
> > Alternatively, there is a little know utility called 'rescan'. For
> > instance
> > when i hot-plug one of my
> > harddisk i do a: "rescan ide"... and voila there it is :)
> >
> > manuel,
> >
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