Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:20:19 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT) Message-ID: <20030812062019.D430910A@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> <20030811143601.I75891@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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> > > Are you swapping the CDROM and battery while FreeBSD is booted? FreeBSD > > > does not handle this at all and will get really upset if you attempt it. > > > > Really? 4.x with APM handles swapping between a secondary HDD, CD-ROM, > > DVD & DVD/CD-RW in the secondary bay on my Omnibook just fine. > > I'd count you lucky. Perhaps. Although I've done it sufficient numbers of times without incident that I don't consider it luck, rather working as designed. I don't really see how useful ATAPI RAID support is without the ability to hot-swap devices? And, as atapicontrol seems to be geared mostly towards that, well... > BTW don't upgrade to 5.X if you want to keep your > sanity -- HP's ACPI code does NOT work. Certainly never used to. I got rid of the 6100 I bought because I couldn't get sound and PC cards working at the same time with 4-STABLE or 5.x... Cheers, AS
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