Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:14:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@mass.dis.org Subject: Re: Some questions concerning Thinkpad T20 Message-ID: <200112290114.fBT1EXF16748@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> of "Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:47:58 MST." <15404.63134.587662.419656@caddis.yogotech.com>
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> > *) 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. Actually, you should be fine using atacontrol to swap the drive in and out; ACPI should take this one further and automate the process (but we are not ready for this yet). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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