From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kari Karhi" Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:56:28 +0000 Subject: hotpluggable ide cd-rom drive? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm new to linux, but recently loaded RedHat 8.0 on my Dell Latitude CSx H laptop. The laptop comes with external floppy and cd-rom drives that connect to an ide port on the laptop. On Windows 2000 the drives are hot-pluggable. My problem is that while the floppy drive is hot-pluggable in RH 8.0, the cd-rom drive is not. If I boot with the cd-rom drive connected, everything works, I see the /proc/ide/ide1 directory and the hdc device. kudzu then links it to /dev/cdrom and I can mount the drive. If I boot without the cd-rom drive connected, the /proc/ide/ide1 directory is NOT there and kudzu can not find it, even after I plug the drive in. Is there a user level command to kick the ide-probe module into probing the ide bus again? Or is work going on to get the kernel to support hot-pluggable ide drives? Or am I just missing some configuration parameter? If this is not the right list for this question, please direct me to a better list. I have already asked in redhat-install and linux-laptop lists without an answer. Thanks, Kari ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel