[ltp] Thinkpad R50p Ultrabay Hotswapping drives

Michael Gaber linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:31:58 +0100


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Joerg Platte wrote:
| Am Donnerstag, 10. März 2005 11:48 schrieb Michael Gaber:
| Hi!
|
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|>i own a second HDD-Adapter for the Ultrabay on my R50p.
|>I'd like to swap the cdrom-drive and the HDD on the fly like it is
|>possible under windows.
|>i have the ibm-acpi--driver reporting me acpi events on opening the
|>"pull-drive-out-handle" and do like described on the page:
|
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| I'm using hotswap -c 1 unregister-ide and hotswap -c 1 rescan-ide on
my T40p.
| This works fine, but DMA does not work after changing the device
because the
| kernel does not support this at the moment.
|
| regards,
| Jörg
|

thanks i will try this.
which package does include hotswap? I'm actually using a gentoo-linux
and a 2.6.10 kernel
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