Hello everybody,
I've got an HP Omnibook 4100 and I'm running SuSE 6.2 on it. I'm very
happy as everything is working fine, except for hot swapping between the
floppy-drive and the cdrom. Only the device, that was inserted during a
coldstart (strange, but rebooting Linux alone is not enough!) will work
under Linux, the other drive doesn't. I tried to compile the drivers as
modules and I tried to compile them into the kernel (by the way: kernel
2.2.10), but the result is the same.
When I insert the cdrom, i.e. the floppy was inserted during the
coldstart and I want to swap in the cdrom, I get the message, that he
can't find the module, loading the module by hand doesn't change
anything. I also unloaded the floppy-module.
If I do it the other way round, i.e. cdrom was inserted during the
coldstart and I swap in the floppy, I get weird messages saying that the
floppy is write-protected and has a strange filesystem (the floppy is
_not_ writeproteced and has ordinary fat-fs, which is compiled into the
kernel).
Do you have any ideas about the problem? Are there any other modules
apart from floppy-support and cdrom-support that have to be compiled as
a module? Do they have to be modules at all? Any Ideas?
I've already mailed to some other guys who said that with their Omnibook
41x0 and RedHat hot swapping has worked out of the box, so they couldn't
give me any advices...
This seems to be a rather weired problem as I couldn't find any postings
with this or a similar problem, not even on deja.com...
Thanks for your troubles
Dirk
