[ltp] 2nd HD

[John Shane]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:50:59 -0700
Dan Sawyer <dansawyer@earthlink.net> wrote:

> John,
> 
> I don't know about hotswap. What distro are you running? Where did
> you get hotswap? Where are the sources?
> 
> I will give it a try.
> 
> - Dan

I am currently running Xubuntu Edgy.  Hotswap is in the Xubuntu
universe repository.  Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta agi-at-initab.org the
maintainer.  You can probably find it several (many?) places although
I haven't looked.  Apparently it is not ThinkPad specific and works
with other laptops as well.  You should be able to find it for your
distro fairly easily.  Hope you get it working.  John

> 
> John Shane wrote:
> > 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
> >>>   
> >>>       
>