dealing with removable devices?

["Alan Su" <alsu@cs.ucsd.edu>]

i'm having a problem i suspect is similar to how people deal with
laptop docks.  i've got a woody installation on an thinkpad t21, which
has a ultrabay 2000 slot, allowing for a removable floppy/cdrom.  i
can swap devices, and everything works ok...*if* the cdrom was in the
slot when the machine was booted.

however, if the cdrom is not in the ultrabay at boot time, the
secondary ide interface doesn't seem to be initialized.  one thing i
noticed is that there is no /proc/ide1 directory or a /proc/hdc link
(as there is when i boot with the drive in).

does anyone know of a way to get this to work if i don't have the
cdrom in at boot time?  thanks!

-alan


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