I have a dell latitude c400 with an up2date install of shrike. It has an external drive bay, which connects via a cable, that can house a floppy or cdrw (other stuff too but those are all I have). If I boot the laptop with the drive bay disconnected, I can connect it with the floppy, mount a floppy, unmount the floppy, and disconnect the drive bay. But the cdrw must be connected when the computer boots for it to work. The modules loaded to access it are udf, sg, sr_mod, ide-scsi, scsi_mod, ide-cd, scsi_mod, ide-cd, and cdrom. It is accessed as /dev/scd0. If I disconnect the drive with the computer running, even when it's not mounted, I get this in /var/log/messages. At this point I have to reboot to be able to use either the floppy or cdrw.
Sep 2 00:20:17 dragonfly kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
Sep 2 00:20:17 dragonfly kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
Sep 2 00:20:17 dragonfly kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Sep 2 00:20:22 dragonfly kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6803, scsi0, channel 0, id
0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
Sep 2 00:20:32 dragonfly kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6803, scsi0, channel 0, id
0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
Sep 2 00:20:32 dragonfly kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 6803) timed out - resetting
Sep 2 00:20:32 dragonfly kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Sep 2 00:20:32 dragonfly kernel: SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 6803) timed out - trying harder
Sep 2 00:20:32 dragonfly kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Sep 2 00:20:47 dragonfly kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0xff
Sep 2 00:21:22 dragonfly kernel: ide1: reset timed-out, status=0xff
Sep 2 00:21:22 dragonfly kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
Sep 2 00:21:22 dragonfly kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Sep 2 00:21:52 dragonfly kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0xff
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