[ltp] CD-ROM hotplug

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 10 May 2008, Wolf Wiegand wrote:
> the CD-ROM connector of my R40 is somewhat broken, the machine won't
> boot with the CD-ROM-device inserted into the machine (hangs in
> POST-screen). The machine is dualboot Linux+Windows, and if I boot into
> Windows, I can just insert the CD-ROM after logging on, and a couple of
> seconds later the device is available (and works).

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)?

-- 
  "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