[KLUG Members] PC Cardbus CDROM on Vaio

[Eric Beversluis]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 13:40, Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:
> > My little VAIO desktop uses the Cardbus slot for the CD-ROM drive. When
> > in Linux, can I just hotswap disconnect it when I don't need it or do I
> > have to unmount it somehow? (XP always wants me to do it's equivalent of
> > unmounting.)
> 
> What distribution?  Hot swapping devices under SuSe 9.1 has so far
> worked flawlessly,  under RedHat I always did a mount/unmount or else
> I'd run into problems.
> 
Mandrake 10
I've experimented a bit and it seems that when Linux is starting up it
notices if the drive is there and shouldn't be or if it isn't there and
should be--in each case there is a prompt to reconfigure. This seems to
be taking care of the problem.

As I understand it, the main reason for explicitly unmounting drives is
so that files get saved back to the drive properly. Since files don't
get saved back to a CD-ROM drive, that shouldn't be a problem?

Broader question: Do we mount file systems or devices? When Linux is
loading, it seems to look for the device, but when I plug the drive in
after Linux is loaded and mount it from the command line, it will only
mount it if there's a disk in the drive.

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