On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:49:47AM -0500, Ben Stallings wrote:
> Hi, folks. My laptop has a hot-swappable drive bay that accommodates a
> CD-ROM, DVD player, SuperDisk floppy drive, or second battery. Linux
> recognizes each of these as /dev/hdc.
>
> Here's my problem... if I have the CD-ROM (or DVD) drive in the bay at
> startup and then put in the floppy drive later, I can't mount it RW because
> hdc definited itself at startup as read-only. The only way I've found to
> redefine hdc as writeable is to restart linux with the floppy drive in the
> bay. Is there a better way?
1. Do a
ls -l /dev/hdc
if it doesn't look like
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Aug 8 11:05 /dev/hdc
do a
chmod 660 /dev/hdc
2. What linux distribution are you using, what kernel (uname -a)
florin
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