> I have an external Yamaha CDR400t writer. The problem I have is that if I
> take the writer to another machine and my linux box boots without the
> writer, I cannot use the writer again without rebooting the linux box.
> This does not happen on the Mac, where the writer can be used even if it
> was not present at boot time.
>
> Is there any workaround for this?
Maybe. Since you didn't say if your drive is SCSI or IDE, and I
haven't memorized all the drive numbers, I'll take a guess at this and
assume that if you say "Mac" it means SCSI.
When the SCSI controller driver is loaded, it does drive detect. If
you are running with your disks on the same controller you are out of
luck, but if not, you can compile the SCSI controller as a module, and
load it by hand, or unload it and reload it, causing a search of all
connected devices.
The same goes for ide-scsi, you can load that when the device is
connected and then unload it before you disconnect.
There may be some tricks from the PCMCIA world which help here, or
some ioctl to cause rediscovery, but the module loading will work, I use
it for several other devices.
If you build the rest of your SCSI stuff as modules you may have to
unload some of them first.
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