Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:38:38 -0700 From: Michael Collette <metrol@metrol.net> To: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Thinkpad CD/RW Message-ID: <200209201738.38132.metrol@metrol.net> In-Reply-To: <1032568431.4586.2.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> References: <200209201647.42004.metrol@metrol.net> <1032568431.4586.2.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>
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On Friday 20 September 2002 05:33 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 19:47, Michael Collette wrote: > > Been looking to possibly pick up a CD/RW for this Thinkpad T23 of mine > > here, and I was just wondering if anyone else has one? Just looking for > > some kind of confirmation that this might actually work properly under > > FreeBSD. > > > > More specifically, I'm looking to purchase one of the ultrabay models > > rather than some kind of external setup. > > I can't speak to your exact setup, but I have an Ultrabay DVD-CD/RW in > my T30 and it works fine, aside from Ultrabay not being hot-swappable > under FreeBSD (there's some business where the OS has to notify the > hardware that it's ready for the swap, otherwise the Ultrabay locks out > whatever device has been inserted/removed). Ohhh, very cool. I'm not looking to do any swapping of devices while powered up anyway, so that is the least of my concerns. Just wanted to make sure that I could actually write to the CD/RW without any hassles. BTW, any clever bits for the kernel config to get this to play? Later on, -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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