[ltp] Re: T23, ibm-acpi and UltraBay hotswapping

[Borislav Deianov]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de> wrote:
> At the end of ibm-acpi.txt is a note that UltraBay floppy support is
> still on the TODO list. This would be bad, since I want to swap DVD-ROM
> and floppy. However, after I inserted the floppy drive, I was able to
> use it. Does anyone know why this item is on the TODO list?

The current implementation assumes that the devices in the bay are
IDE, which is not true for a floppy drive. This means that you may not
get an ACPI event from the eject button if the floppy is currently in
and you may not be able to correctly eject the floppy drive. That
being said, it may still work because often the IDE and floppy methods
just call the same functions internally. In any case, once plugged in,
the floppy drive snould work fine.

Regards,
Boris