[ltp] ICH6M legacy hotswap?

[Jim Duchek]

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I don't have a newer laptop to play with, but I think if you can get AHCI
working, I can get lt_hotswap working with it.

Jim


On 28/02/06, Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there currently any kludge/patch/hack for hot/warm/cold swapping on
> the PATA port of ICH6M in legacy mode with ata_piix/libata? Or a way
> to switch the ICH6M to AHCI mode (in the absence of BIOS support) and
> then get AHCI hot/warm/coldwap?
>
> I'm trying to get hot-swapping of the UltraBay DVD drive on a ThinkPad
> T43.
>
> (There's a new kernel module, lt_hotswap, that provides IDE
> hotswapping on some PATA machines, such as older ThinkPads. It fiddles
> with ACPI and the legacy ide driver's internals, so it doesn't work
> with the ata_piix driver needed on the ThinkPad T43.)
>
>   Shem
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> The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
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I don't have a newer laptop to play with, but I think if you can get AHCI w=
orking, I can get lt_hotswap working with it.<br><br>Jim<br><br><br><div><s=
pan class=3D"gmail_quote">On 28/02/06, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Shem M=
ultinymous
</b> &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:multinymous@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank" onclick=
=3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">multinymous@gmail.com</a>=
&gt; wrote:</span>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>Is the=
re currently any kludge/patch/hack for hot/warm/cold swapping on<br>the PAT=
A port of ICH6M in legacy mode with ata_piix/libata? Or a way
<br>to switch the ICH6M to AHCI mode (in the absence of BIOS support) and<b=
r>then get AHCI hot/warm/coldwap?<br><br>I'm trying to get hot-swapping of =
the UltraBay DVD drive on a ThinkPad T43.<br><br>(There's a new kernel modu=
le, lt_hotswap, that provides IDE
<br>hotswapping on some PATA machines, such as older ThinkPads. It fiddles<=
br>with ACPI and the legacy ide driver's internals, so it doesn't work<br>w=
ith the ata_piix driver needed on the ThinkPad T43.)<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;She=
m<br>
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