[ltp] UltraSlimBay swapping on ThinkPad 600

[Tino Keitel]

On Wednesday, 26. September 2001 22:24, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Well, after leaving this issue alone for about a year,
> I just tried again to swap between floppy and CD-ROM
> UltraSlimBay drives on my ThinkPad 600.
>
> What I CAN do is:
>   COLD boot with the floppy drive in the bay
>   optionally: mount and unmount a floppy disk
>   suspend
>   remove floppy drive
>   insert CD-ROM drive
>   resume
>   hdparm -R 0x170 0 0 /dev/hda
>   optionally: mount and unmount a CD-ROM disk
>   suspend
>   remove CD-ROM drive
>   resume
>   optionally: mount and unmount a floppy disk
> etc.
>
> Note that the system must be COLD booted with the
> FLOPPY drive in the bay.  Otherwise the floppy drive
> will never work.

I had the same behaviour when I first tried to take out the CD-ROM and put in 
the floppy drive. After doing a "PS2.EXE fdd internal" (don't know if this is 
the right syntax, but I think it was set to "external" before) I was able to 
use the floppy drive after booting with the CD-ROM. I don't need to fiddle 
around with hdparm -U/-R.


I hope that helps.

Tino

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