On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:10:41PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello All ! > > is there a way to manage the media bay ? > I would like to move in/out my ZiP iomega drive and my CDDrive > in the fly (Currently I reboot my laptop, and I do not like it !).
On my Dell I4000, I use the media bay for swapping between a CD-Rom
drive and a floppy drive.
Note: If your CDDrive and Zip drive are both IDE devices, will they both
be /dev/hdc? If so, then you probably want to look into the hdparm
package and registering/unregistering IDE interfaces on the fly.
Be sure to read the warnings in the hdparm doc first though.
Here's what works for me:
- If booting *without* the cdrom inserted, the kernel will not see it.
And it will refuse to see it until coerced by hdparm
(/usr/share/doc/hdparm/examples/idectl). I boot very rarely (thanks to
the sleepd package), so I have to look it up every time...
- My kernel has floppy, ide-cd and cdrom as modules. I'm not sure it
matters for this; but I always had them as modules...
- Before removing the CDRom drive:
# umount /cdrom
# rmmod ide-cd cdrom
In the past, I have gotten away without rmmod'ing the relevant
modules, but sometimes the machine would end up going *very* slow
while the kernel spent some 50% of the cpu time looking for things I
removed from the bay.. Lesson learned: rmmod first or suffer.
- Before removing the floppy drive:
# umount /floppy
# rmmod floppy
voila!
HTH, YMMV
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