Ben Stallings <Ben at WorksCited.Net> 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.  

Heh, at least you're not trying to swap an IDE device with a PCMCIA one or
anything.

You might try compiling your kernel with IDE CD-ROM and IDE Floppy drivers
as modules.  It might be possible to unload the ide-cd module and load the
ide-floppy module.  However, the kernel still might not know that the
device there had changed, so some way of kicking the kernel to re-scan the
IDE bus is in order, and I have no idea how to do that..

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