[ltp] Re: T41, cdrom, 2nd hard drive in ultra bay

Greg Meyer linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:54:04 -0500


On Wednesday 05 January 2005 03:28 am, Andr=E9 Wyrwa wrote:
> On Di, 2005-01-04 at 13:31 -0500, Volker Braun wrote:
> > Ultrabay hot swap does work. Google for the idectl script (or the right
> > hdparm parameters) to turn ide channels on/off. If you want to automati=
ze
> > everything, the ultrabay lever emits an acpi signal. Your acpi scripts
> > can then react to that.

This is good news, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
>
> What machine do you have and what kernel are you running? On my system
> hdparm never managed to suspend the device.
>
I have a T41 and am running Mandrake's 2.6.8.1 recompiled with local apic=20
disabled so I get poweroff properly.  Everything seems to be working fine=20
with respect to acpi, including cpu throttling.
=2D-=20
/g