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

[Tino Keitel]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 11:55:39 -0800, Brandon Philips wrote:
> 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.

How does your kernel detect the CDROM drive if you insert it afer the
boot process?

> But if you start with the CDROM the darn thing wont work.

It depends. On my TP 765L, I have to boot with the CDROM drive. This
way I can swap the CDROM and floppy after the machine is suspended and
use the floppy drive after resume. If I boot with the floppy drive, the
machine will not detect the CDROM if I insert it during suspend.

However, the kernel will only detect the floppy if the configuration is
set to an internal floppy drive. I had to do ps2.exe fdd internal to
achieve this.

Regards,
Tino

> ----- 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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