I was playing around with my laptop last night and decided to see if I could get some rudimentary hotplug capability to work with my IDE DVD-ROM drive. I found a small program at http://turingmachine.org/hardware/helium/ that seemed to do the trick. It scans the IDE bus at IO address 0x170 (ide1), and I was happy to see that it worked on my system (the system appeared to freeze for a moment, but it correctly detected the drive). I'm curious if anyone knows of a `nicer' way to do this. I've heard that ACPI (a successor of sorts to APM) should allow for this, but from what I've heard, ACPI is fairly unsupported in Linux these days.. It'd be cool if it was automatic Also, does anyone know of a similar trick for scanning for a floppy drive? I don't use the floppy in my laptop very often (usually just for updating the BIOS), but it'd be nice to just plug it in and have it work.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I'm a firm believer in the / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ idea of a ruling class, \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) since I rule. [ 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: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020302/4627f4e4/attachment.pgp