[ltp] Re: /proc/acpi/ibm/bay not supported (R60)

Whoopie linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:53:03 +0200


Hi,

use this patch and it should work:

http://whoopie.gmxhome.de/tmp/ibm_acpi-t60-ultrabay.patch

Or have a look at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.thinkpad/28170

Best regards,
Whoopie

b42 schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> i was trying to make work ultrabay hotswapping on my r60, but it
> seems that the bay is not supported by ibm-acpi.
> 
> /proc/acpi/ibm # cat bay
> status:		not supported
> 
> /proc/acpi/ibm # echo eject > bay
> echo: write error: No such device
> 
> I have vanilla kernel version 2.6.18 with ibm-acpi compiled in (with
> experimental=1). Am I doing something wrong or is this model missing on
> some whitelist somewhere ... or something like that?
> 
> thanks, -b42