Same here: I can swap the bay mounted cdrw with a floppy module for a short time, and as long as I swap it back before doing a software suspend all is fine. Any other combination (including leaving it out for extended periods) ensures a painful crash at inopportune moments. As well, my i82k has a stupidly designed catch on the bay that often releases when picking the machine up: leaving the device partially plugged in. Again, a crash often results. Hotplugging may help here.
BillK On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 10:47 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Just wondering if there's code to mark the modular bay in laptops to be > hot-pluggable. > > I believe Thinkpads has one which is acpi controlled. > > I'm on a dell, is there one ? > > The problem here is that I have a Battery/CDrom/HD and I would like to > be able to switch from one to another without powering/shutting down and > rebooting with the new drive. > > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 10:46:03 up 58 min, 7 users, load average: 1.69, 1.31, 0.84 > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
