On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:47:31 +0100 wwp <subscript@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello there, > > > when I replace (hotplug) the secondary battery of my D810 with the > CD/DVD writer, my Fedora 8 doesn't seem to acknowledge this hardware > change. To make the optical drive recognized by the system, I have to > get it plugged to the bay at boot time. Is the controlled set up as AHCI or ICH/PIIX (what does dmesg say) > I tried restarting haldaemon, and even a rescan_scsi_bus.sh, but the > drive is not seen when hotplugged in. It may be neccessary to run ACPI methods as well. A rescan works for the newer IBM systems but I don't know about the Dell boxes. Alan
