[ltp] IDE-Hotplugging

Pekka Pessi linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:09:37 +0300


Frederic Gaus <ml-linux-thinkpad@necroshine.de> writes:
>I'd like to change my ultra-bay-cdrom with my ultra-bay-akku. Is that
>possible while the system is running ( i think under windows xp, it is
>supportet, so why not under linux ;-) )

	I have managed to add a hard disk while system was suspended,
	and use that afterwards. You have to use hdparm -R to add the
	IDE device, and hdparm -U to remove it.

					Pekka