Hello Alan, On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:47:16 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Apparently the optical drive is ata_piix controlled, right? After rebooting (optical drive plugged in): # dmesg | grep -Ei "PIIX|AHCI" ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.3 ahci: probe of 0000:00:1f.2 failed with error -22 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.12 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 IDE IDE ] scsi0 : ata_piix scsi1 : ata_piix What does that mean to me now? Regards, -- wwp
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