I have noticed that when I plug in an external firewire hard drive the proper modules do not get loaded with hotplug and I had to load the modules with /etc/modules when booting. I have also noticed that after unmounting the hard drive and then unplugging it, hotplug does not unload the modules and then deletes devices blocks sda-sda9 under /dev? I then have to go back and put the /dev block back in /dev?
I am still learning about hotplug. I am wondering if it is working properly? Has anyone else seen this too? -Adam