Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:47:58 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some questions concerning Thinkpad T20 Message-ID: <15404.63134.587662.419656@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20011228192133.V300-100000@korben> References: <20011228192133.V300-100000@korben>
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> FreeBSD runs pretty well on my Thinkpad T20 (details can be found at > <http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/thinkpad/>), but I still have some > questions: > > *) can I get the "hotswap" feature of DVD drive and floppy drive to work > without having to reboot each time I want to change drives? (I get all > kind of error messages from "Device not configured" to "Device busy" and > system deadlocks and even kernel panics when I try to switch drives when > the system is running.) Probably not, since it requires a special driver under windows to work correctly. Someone would have to write a similar driver for FreeBSD, and I doubt IBM would be forthcoming in the programming information to do it. > *) can I get the DVD drive to run in DMA mode? Currently it only runs in > PIO mode. It runs fine in DMA mode. Try adding the following to /boot/loader.conf hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" > *) I guess noone has tried to write an IrDA stack yet, so I can't use the > Infrared port? That is correct. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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