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"...I've got hot swapping working fine on my 755cd in win95. The config.sys has the IBMTPCD.SYS driver load, and autoexec has MSCDEX loaded. Windows 95 thinks the CDROM is a "Standard CDROM drive". When you lift up the keyboard on your does it go fully into suspend mode? And what happens after you switch the CDROM with the floppy drive while its in suspend..." ~~~~~ as i suspected, you're using the old real mode drivers. i don't know what you mean by 'full suspend.' i never use suspend mode at all, so i'm not familiar with it. when i lift up the keyboard, the screen and lights blank. when i snap it back down, it takes a couple seconds for the screen to come back up & the mouse to respond. if i've swapped the cd & floppy in the mean time, the device is not recognized and often the os is locked up. i haven't noted whether cd-out-floppy-in regularly gives one response and floppy-out-cd-in gives another. i just know that sometimes i get an os with no device and sometimes i get no os. i have no config.sys, and my autoexec.bat only adds c:\mww\dll to the path, nothing else. i guess it's a trade off between a marginal stability improvement and a small piece of functionality. it's not really an issue for me anymore because i got my external floppy sleeve a while ago. fwiw, ibm wants $135 for this little piece of plastic that toshiba gives away with every cd laptop. Michael J. Verne Systems Administrator, Ventana Communications Group michael_verne@vmedia.com http://www.vmedia.com/michaelv/ ------------------------------- If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction. --Dietrich Bonhoeffer