[ltp] Re: UltraBay hotplug not working with T23

[Tino Keitel]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 21:19:25 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 21:09:49 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I use kernel 2.6.23.13 on my T23 and just switched from the old IDE
> > driver to libata. I read on
> > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_UltraBay_devices shouldn't
> > be a problem with libata.
> > 
> > Now I removed the UltraBay battery and inserted an optical drive and
> > nothing happens. I also have to /proc/acpi/ibm/bay file, but according
> > to http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/, the T23 should have bay support.
> > What I'm missing?

Hi again,

with the optical drive inserted, thinkpad_acpi doesn't complain at
bootup and I get a /proc/acpi/ibm/bay file.

This is somewhat inconvinient, as I only switched to libata to be able
to boot with the battery inserted and insert the optical drive later
without losing DMA transfers. Now I'm again limited to boot with the
optical drive inserted, and when I insert the battery later. However, I
won't have a /proc/acpi/battery entry when the ThinkPad isn't booted
with the UltraBay battery inserted.

What can I do to solve this?

Regards,
Tino