[ltp] T30/T40 UltraBay HDD Hot-swapping?

[Stefan Farestam]

I played around with hot-swapping of harddrives quite a bit with my
old T21, but never got it working. I have now settled for a USB
harddisk cradle instead. I would strongly propose this solution
since it doesn't demand any magic to get it working, and if you have
a T40 with USB2 the speed is very decent as well.

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:31, Miller, Michael T. wrote:
> I know this has been discussed on this list just a few times before, but...
>  
> Has anybody had any success with hot-swapping hard drives on the UltraBay?
>  
> So far, I can boot with a floppy, CD/RW, or hard drive, and hot-swap from any of those to a CD/RW or floppy, but never back to the hard drive.  In other words, hdparm -R never works for me with a hard drive.  The disk shows up under the /proc/ide directory, but once I try to access the device (fdisk, mount, etc), the command hangs, and eventually the machine locks up or I get a kernel panic.  I know the hardware supports hot-swapping, so what's missing, any suggestions for where to look, whom to talk to, what to dig into?
>  
> To be fair, I haven't played with the T40 yet, but it's next on the list.
> 
> -- 
> mike