[ltp] ultrabay hotswap

[Rei Shinozuka]

i have a dual-boot t23 (we have to use win XP prof for school, and 
hot-swapping out the DRW/DVD has caused xp to crash several times for 
me.  it's even crashed once on boot when i cold-swapped it out.
i also usually use the ultrabay battery most of the time.  

-rei

On Jun17 07:44, Aaron Mulder wrote:
> 	Would this work for swapping between a battery and DVD drive, even 
> though one of them is not a "hd" device?  That would be really handy.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, der-befreier wrote:
> > 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,
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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey