[ltp] Re: What are people using for Dock/Undocking scripts for their X60/61's?
Thomas Hood
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:03:32 +0100
Theodore Ts'o wrote in July 2008:
> I'm curious what people have been using for docking/undocking scripts
> for their X60/61 laptops. I've found the dockutils at:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dockutils
>
> to be useful as a starting point, although it hasn't been updated in two
> years and I had to make some changes to support the X61 and because it
> was relying on hal properties that no longer exist. I also had to add
> an explicit "hdparm -Y" to spin down the disk before undocking it.
>
I checked this link and it led to http://en.opensuse.org/Dockutils
which, as you say, hasn't been updated since 2007.
Have you found something better in the meantime?
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Thomas Hood