[ltp] ultrabay hotswap

[der-befreier]

Can somebody send me his scripts? Because i want a hotswap between the 
multiburner and a second accu on my r51 with suse 9.3 on it ;-)

greetings

markus

Am Samstag, 14. Februar 2004 06:10 schrieb Matt Graham:
> On Friday 13 February 2004 23:52, after a long battle with technology,
>
> Reed Gregory wrote:
> > I saw this asked a while back with no responses so I thought I might
> > give it a try again.  Has anyone gotten the ultrabay hotswap support
> > working?    I have a cd-rw/dvd combo drive, floppy, and ultrabay
> > battery for my T23 and would like to use them all without rebooting
> > or even suspending.
>
> Recent tarballs of hdparm include a shell script that you can use
> together with tpctl to do hotswapping of Ultrabay devices on a 600E
> (and almost certainly other Thinkpads).  Basically, the scripts
> included check the output from tpctl -iU every 15 seconds, and if it's
> different from what it was last time, they do "hdparm -U /dev/hdc"
> followed by "hdparm -R /dev/hdc".  This is still considered
> experimental, but it appears to work for some people.  I haven't tried
> it out myself because I only have one Ultrabay device.  HTH,