[ltp] Thinkpad R50p Ultrabay Hotswapping drives

[Michael Gaber]

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André Wyrwa wrote:
| On Fr, 2005-03-11 at 22:56 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
|
|>On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:44, Konstantin Filtschew wrote:
|>
|>>hi,
|>>
|>>try this, it should be the same as hotswap:
|>>
|>>thinkpad ~ # emerge search hotplug
|
|
|>You need coldplug too:
|>
|>*  sys-apps/coldplug
|>      Latest version available: 20040920
|>      Latest version installed: 20040920
|>      Size of downloaded files: 43 kB
|>      Homepage:    http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
|>      Description: coldplug init.d program to load modules at bootime
|>      License:     GPL-2
|>
|>
|>>If it do the trick, please tell us :)
|>
|>Indeed!
|
|
| ??? Sure about this?
|
| AFAIK hotplug/coldplug is not of any use concerning hotswapping the
| ultrabay. (Unless something amazing happened to the kernel and hotplug
| scripts recently.)
|
| André.
|

coldplug should not be used, because it is only for some boot-time
firmware loaduing crap.

hotplug does not include hotswap.

hotswap does as i see no functionality for ide-drives.... :(
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