[ltp] CD-ROM hotplug

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 08 Jun 2008, Wolf Wiegand wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > If you are sure it is the connector, get it fixed.  Why do you torture
> > your thinkpad so?
> > 
> > Do you want to fry the south bridge's secondary PATA port (if it is not
> > damaged already)?
> 
> If http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UltraBay is correct, I am dealing with
> an UltraBay Plus which supports hot swapping.

And?  That doesn't make an *active* PATA bus any more friendlier to sudden
electrical events caused by broken/faulty connectors.  It will protect the
PATA bus while the bay is powered down and the bus is forced to tri-state in
the planar card, (led is unlit), but that's it.  After the bay is connected,
it can and will fry part of the south bridge (ICH) if you misshandle it too
often or too much.

I stand for what I told you.  It is a bad idea to keep using the bus if you
have a faulty connector.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh