I have a Sony VAIO r505e series notebook. The docking station (which includes the cd and floppy drives) uses an internal firewire connection. I don't connect it often, but on occasion I need to make use of the CD or floppy drive. A while ago (like, back around Fedora Core 1 days), I was able to connect and disconnect the dock while the laptop was powered on, and it worked fine, hotswap would detect the firewire drives being connected and disconnected. However, now in FC4, if I start the laptop up disconnected, later connecting the dock does nothing. There is no message in dmesg, and it certainly doesn't allow me to mount the CD. Anyone have any experience with this? If any logs will help I can send them. -- prothonotar at tarnation dot dyndns dot org
