[ltp] No /proc/acpi/ibm/bay on T60

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:49:44 -0200


On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> I recently had to hotswap my CDROM and ultrabay battery and looked
> >> desprately for /proc/acpi/ibm/bay to no avail.
> 
> > It does not support the T60, unless you patch it (the patch would break the
> > T43 and a few others).
> 
> > OTOH, the kernel generic ACPI BAY code should work fine with the cdrom (and
> > it will ignore the battery, but you can tell the firmware which battery to
> > draw using tp_smapi, so it is easy to work around until that is fixed.  And
> > I believe it is already fixed in acpi-test).
> 
> Great.  Now all I need to is to get ata-piix working.
> The thinkwiki page only talks about how to prevent piix from being
> loaded, and I got that fine (just adding blacklist entries for `piix',
> `ide_core' and `generic' seems to do the trick), but now loading
> ata-piix doesn't do anything (no dmesg output at all) and the cdrom
> doesn't show up at all.
> Any hint?

You need scsi disk and scsi cdrom support.  Add in scsi generic support as
well for cd/dvd-writing.

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  Henrique Holschuh