Re: Ejecting Ultrabay DVD-CD drive freezes Thinkpad

2007-02-05 Thread John O'Hagan
On Saturday 03 February 2007 21:38, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Fre, 02 Feb 2007, John O'Hagan wrote: > > The command > > > > #echo -n eject > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay > > > > freezes my Etch Thinkpad T40 randomly, about half the time. I must then > > use Alt+Shift+SysRq to shut down. > > This is the ej

Re: Ejecting Ultrabay DVD-CD drive freezes Thinkpad

2007-02-03 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, there is a project call tp_smapi which solvs this problem in a better more stable way. Your problem is, the IDE interface which isn't hotplug able be default.. so its like you cut the power of an harddisc which will also "crash" the kernel. and .. there is thinkwiki a nice site which has man