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11-07-2003, 11:51 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
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Being able to switch between floppy drive and cdrom drive.
Well I have been googling this question for a while with results.
I have a dell lattitude CSX which as external floppy and cdrom drive. So I can only have one device connected at any time.
My question being is that I want to be able to switch between the drives without having the reboot the systems. But I am not exactly sure where to start looking to solve this problem.
When either drive is pluged in they do get reconized and I can use them after boot. But unable to switch without rebooting.
I am running Slackware 9.1
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11-08-2003, 12:29 AM
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Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Stoughton, MA
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Well, this is a little out of my territory. I don't own a notebook (unfortuantely) so I don't have pcmcia support or any other such things you require, but have you tried unmounting the device before switching, and remounting after?
Like:
# umount /dev/cdrom (or whatever yours is)
# mount /dev/fd0
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11-08-2003, 01:26 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
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That though did come to mine But I get no device present when I attempt that. It was a good idea.
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11-08-2003, 02:46 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: South Alabama
Distribution: Fedora / RedHat / SuSE
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I believe you need to look at hotpluging, and probably PNP BIOS
man hotplug
http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/
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11-08-2003, 10:48 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Indiana
Distribution: Mandrake Slackware-current QNX4.25
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This is just a suggestion you can try at your own risk of course. But try using modprobe and rmmod.
For example you remove the floppy and:
rmmod floppy
Install the cdrom and:
modprobe cdrom
And visa-versa.
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11-08-2003, 11:14 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
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Well Ill give them a try. I know that hotplug is enabled.
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11-09-2003, 11:38 AM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Montpellier, Milano
Distribution: RedHat
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Hey I remmember Dell used to supply a parallel port cable for the floppy aswell, that way you can have both peripherals at the same time.
Ginux
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