[ltp] Re: T20 and floppy/cdrom swapping

Paul Ionescu linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:06:33 +0300


Hi Martin,

Is DMA working on your devices after hot-swapping ?
Mine is not.

BTW. If you use ACPI, you don't need to suspend the T20 to get the device
out.


On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:48:03 +0300, Martin Fluch wrote:

> 
> I managed this morning to warm swap my drives with the "hotswap" package.
> 
>     1) hotswap unregister-ide
>     2) suspend the T20
>     3) removing the cd-rom drive and puting in the floppy
>     4) awakening the T20
> 
> and back again with
> 
>     1) suspending the T20
>     2) swaping floppy with cd-rom drive
>     3) awakeing the T20
>     4) hotsawp rescan-ide
> 
> Anyone success with hot swapping (i.e. without suspending the T20)? Or is 
> it not possible?
> 
> - Martin
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Edi Weitz wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:27:31 +0300, Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt> wrote:
>>
>>> I've only done warm swapping (while suspended).
>>
>> And that works without problems? Do you have to use the hotplug daemon
>> for this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Edi.
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