[ltp] T20 and floppy/cdrom swapping

Marius Gedminas linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:43:34 +0300


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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:32:49PM +0200, Edi Weitz wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:27:31 +0300, Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt> wr=
ote:
>=20
> > I've only done warm swapping (while suspended).
>=20
> And that works without problems?

Yes.  To be more precise, I once swapped a DVD-ROM drive with a
different DVD-ROM drive.  It worked.

> Do you have to use the hotplug daemon
> for this?

As far as I understand, hotplug does not deal with IDE devices (yet?).
I used the idectl script distributed with hdparm.  I forgot the exact
steps that I took, but I'm sure you can find them in the README that
comes with idectl, or by googling in the archives of this mailing list.

Marius Gedminas
--=20
But perhaps ISO's central secretariat follows just the common industry
practice pioneered by Microsoft: "We will get it right in the third
release."
	-- Markus Kuhn on ISO 10646 PDF CD-ROM edition

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