[ltp] 2nd HD

[John Shane]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:34:27 -0700
Dan Sawyer <dansawyer@earthlink.net> wrote:

> John,
> 
> I have a similar disk on a T41; did you ever get hot swap to work?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Dan

Hi Dan, I hadn't tried until you asked.  I recently installed the
hotswap software though so I gave it a shot.  Command line, xhotswap
and khotswap all work for me.  I tried removing an installed DVD and
replaced it with a HD.  Worked fine.  Was able to mount the drive
and work with files. Then I removed the HD and replaced it with the
DVD again. Gxine wasn't happy at that point.  Although the T23 was
running fine, I had to reboot in order for the DVD drive to be
recognized.  I may have caused the problem by not unmounting the
HD before swapping back to the DVD.  You think? ;-)  Haven't gone back
to check that yet although I'd expect a warning message or just plain
unmounting the drive before telling me to proceed. Anyway, it's not
perfect but better than crashing as it did before when removing a
device.  John
> 
> John Shane wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 May 2006 08:33:52 -0300
> > Eduardo Nogueira <nogueira@fcm.unicamp.br> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Greetings
> >>
> >> I work with a Thinkpad T42 and want to  add a 2nd HD with
> >> ultrabay slim adapter 62P4554. I have read in think-wiki that
> >> Thinkpad recognizes this 2nd HD on boot time as /dev/hdc.
> >> My (naive) question is how do I proceed from this point,
> >> like format the drive, etc. My distribution is SuSE 9.3
> >>
> >> Thanks for your attention
> >>
> >>
> >> Eduardo
> >>     
> >
> > Bon dia. I use the same arrangement with a Thinkpad T23.  I have
> > an extra HD that is mounted in an ultrabay adapter that I use
> > from time to time. It is indeed recognized as /dev/hdc4.  Because
> > it was formerly my primary drive in the laptop it still has all
> > the old partitions. I'm only interested in one of the partitions
> > and I added the following entry to my /etc/fstab :
> >
> > /dev/hdc4       /hd2    reiserfs        defaults        0       0
> >
> > When the laptop boots with the second drive installed in the
> > ultrabay the laptop finds the drive and mounts the one partition
> > hdc4 on /hd2 (just an arbitrary directory I created).  As I use
> > my TP any references to /hd2 access the second drive. When the
> > second drive is not in the ultrabay slot when the laptop boots it
> > just carries on with the DVD or battery, whatever is there. It's
> > very convenient.
> >
> > If you are comfortable with fdisk just boot your TP with the
> > second drive installed and then use fdisk to partition and format
> > the drive at /dev/hdc.  Then edit fstab to reflect the additional
> > drive and partitions.
> >
> > HTH, Joao
> >   
>