On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:23 +0300, David Harel wrote: > Hi all, > > > On my laptop, if I plug the CDR/DVDR while the machine is on I can't > use the device and I have to reboot to make it work. On my kernel > (2.6.17-gentoo-r8) I setup most drivers to be static. I did not notice > any difference in lsmod with CD or without one. Is there anything to > do to make the "live plugin" work? > > > -- > Regards. > > David Harel,
AFAIR the "old" PATA driver does not support hot-plug - only the newer (2.6.19+) libata based pata driver. You sure you'r BIOS/PATA controller supports hot-plug? - Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
