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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Christof Lange wrote:

> On 12 Jan 07 at 16:26, cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:
>
> > b) I inserted the modules for USB storage - success. Then I added
> > the modules for CD burning - success. But the device address
> > of the CD burner is not as it used to be 0,0,0 bus has been shifted
> > according to the number of USB devices that had been plugged in
> > before.
>
> My further tests discovered one substantial drawback of using the
> scsi driver for both - emulating the CD drive and mounting USB
> storage.
>
> Evidently I have to plug in all USB devices I want to use *before*
> I load the modules for the CD burner. When the CD drive is recognized
> at scsi0, scsi1, etc. the USB support will not recognize any new
> USB devices plugged in later. It only recognizes those which have
> been plugged in an recognized at the addresses below the CD drive.
>
> Can anybody tell why? Is there a way to emulate the CD- IDE drive at
> a higher address and win some place for other USB devices?

Probably hotplug would work but the kernel would be larger and I have no 
idea how to use it.  I can try to compile a kernel with hotplug and kmod, 
and then there is some hotplug.tgz package that I never looked at.  Read 
about this first and let me know what modules would need to be added.

I always put in my USB storage device before loading the modules.
I think I can then take it out and put it in again and have it found.
Experiment some more or read online.

> Christof