You can do it in software or hardware. Hardware is actually adding a switch with a y power adapter and toggle the cd-drives. They will then reboot their internal controllers. You should see whether the jumpers are correctly set on the back of the drives or whether or not they are sitting on the same ide bus and separate them? Are the ide cables working properly? Sometimes swapping out to a fresh 80 pin cable makes the problem go away. What does dmesg output looks like? Adam -----Original Message----- From: Gabor Istvan Subj: [SLE] reinitialize optical drives without rebooting Date: Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:40 am Size: 709 bytes To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Dear all: Sometimes my optical drives (CD-ROM) hang up and I have to=20 reboot the computer if I want to use the again. How could I=20 reinitialize them without rebooting? eg unloading and reloading=20 the drivers or doing something simliar by hand that init process=20 does. Thanks, IG =0A=0A_____________________________________________________________________= _______ Ingyenes hirdet=E9s felad=E1s az [origo] apr=F3n! M=E1r t=F6bb mint 180.00= 0 aj=E1nlat! http://apro.origo.hu/ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com