Ben Stallings <Ben at WorksCited.Net> wrote: > > Hi, folks. My laptop has a hot-swappable drive bay that accommodates a > CD-ROM, DVD player, SuperDisk floppy drive, or second battery. Linux > recognizes each of these as /dev/hdc. Heh, at least you're not trying to swap an IDE device with a PCMCIA one or anything. You might try compiling your kernel with IDE CD-ROM and IDE Floppy drivers as modules. It might be possible to unload the ide-cd module and load the ide-floppy module. However, the kernel still might not know that the device there had changed, so some way of kicking the kernel to re-scan the IDE bus is in order, and I have no idea how to do that.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ MS-DOS: celebrating / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ over twenty years of \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) obsolescence [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011002/f6cc90ca/attachment.pgp