I'm using the same drivers as you but the lack of hotswap has never bothered me. I can't remember how I found these (recommended on some forum post or other) but there is a more advanced driver suite located here that supposedly supports hot swap and a bunch of other things like USB input devices. I haven't tried them out yet; if you get them working let us know how you make out.

Thanks for the suggestion. Actually Bret's drivers won't work for me, because there's no support for OHCI (which is the only usb I have). I wonder, if I used a pcmcia card usb 2.0, would they work with that?

As for the lack of hotswap, it's really something that I would like to have... I just can't put my finger on what could be wrong 🙁
A second thing missing is the NTFS support. I know some people had luck with some "read only" drivers, and if I can't do it any other way I will use those, but I would like to have read/write. Maybe I will try "read only" drivers just to check wether it works.

Thanks for your reply, and hope more people will give their insight on the matter 😀

Presumably the Motto Hairu driver isn't designed to work with USB controllers or USB mass storage devices that are already initialized. Unloading the driver won't clear that, only a reboot will.

Thanks. Yes it could be that....
But the question remains, why doesn't it work when I don't load the driver at boot? I have tried not sticking the usb drive in, not loading the driver, do it all after withn devload... It doesn't work.
Could there be another driver that would work this way? Thanks

ratco wrote:

But the question remains, why doesn't it work when I don't load the driver at boot? I have tried not sticking the usb drive in, not loading the driver, do it all after withn devload... It doesn't work.

Interesting question. I'd ask the author.
http://www.infradead.org/devload/