[ltp] fc9 hang on ultra bay hard drive eject

Dan Sawyer linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:39:30 -0700


Florian,

A couple of questions:

When will these be in the kernel?
How many of them need to be applied?
Which ones?

Thanks - Dan

Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> Dan Sawyer schrieb:
>> All,
>>
>> The system is a T41 running fc9. Ultra_bay swap of dvd drives works 
>> flawlessly, repeatably. However attempts to eject a hard drive cause 
>> a system hang. The script is copied from the wiki, the last message 
>> is a sleep message. The normal complete mode beep is sent. The cursor 
>> blinks for a couple of seconds and then the system hangs. There are 
>> no error messages in the log. The only option is to power off and 
>> reboot. This worked on fc7 with the old 'hotswap'.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks - Dan
> There are patches for 2.6.25, I'll send update thinkpad-sources within 
> the next few days. The ebuild (browseable over the trac) should give 
> you a hint.
>
> Also you could look here:
> http://whoopie.gmxhome.de/linux/patches/2.6.25/
>
> florian