[ltp] Hot, Warm, Cold - cdrom & floppy drive swap in 770e

[Brandon Philips]

Welcome to Linux and a world on inconviencies.  In order for the floppy to
work on a warm swap you need to have the floppy in at boot THEN you can put
in the CDROM and if you are so inclined warm swap again with the floppy.
But if you start with the CDROM the darn thing wont work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "SMichelle" <parallax@pacbell.net>
To: "thinkpad" <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 10:50 AM
Subject: [ltp] Hot, Warm, Cold - cdrom & floppy drive swap in 770e


> How are cdrom and floppy drive swaps handled? I've tried the hot swap
> (which froze my machine), I've tried the warm swap while in suspend (no
> laptop freeze up but the floppy drive wasn't recognized either), so the
> cold swap (shutting down, swapping drives, and starting up again) is the
> only thing which works.  This is a bit inconvenient.
>
> Based on previous advice I've disabled the quick boot in the bios in
> order for sound ... but didn't notice a difference in the above behavior
> when the quick boot was enabled either. Is there some other workaround?
>
> TP 770e running RH7.3
>
> Thanks.
>
> /SMichelle
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