IDE Hotswap bug

[Keith Lofstrom]

I use the "hdparm -b 0" and "hdparm -b 1" commands to facilitate
hotswap of IDE hard drives with Fedora Core 1 with the 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
kernel containing Alan Cox's hot swap additions. 

The code seems to have a bug somewhere, either in the kernel or in hdparm;
the disk geometry tables are not getting rewritten by the "hdparm -b 1"
command.  I can work around it by using the sfdisk command then
control-C'ing out of it, but that seems dangerous.  

Is anyone else using this new feature?  Is anyone else seeing the problem?
I will submit a bug to bugzilla when I localize this a bit better, but
other eyes might help.

More information (the start of a bugzilla submission) can be found at  
http://www.keithl.com/idebug

Thanks,     Keith

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