From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 07:39:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F62637B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD8843F93 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19maKm-0003fn-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:41:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19maKk-0003fO-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:41:10 +0200 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19maJV-0000k7-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:39:53 +0200 From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:39:52 -0400 Organization: WingNET Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <20030812064437.C15481-100000@moo.sysabend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:39:59 -0000 Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > >> Doug White wrote: > >> > Are you swapping the CDROM and battery while FreeBSD is booted? >> > FreeBSD does not handle this at all and will get really upset if you >> > attempt it. > >> This can be overcome on my IBM A30p by detaching the CD-ROM with >> atacontrol, suspending, removing the cdrom drive, resuming, and >> reinitializing everything. > > I can do this on my Dell without suspending. You may want to try it out > and save yourself a few extra steps. Hmmm. Right you are. I guess I was assuming too much. Thanks! > I use atacontrol to switch between > my spare battery, LS-120, Zip250, and DVD/CD-RW bay modules regularly. I > have just upgraded from 4-S to 5.1-R, and haven't checked functionality in > 5.1 yet, Again, I'm using 5.1-RELEASE w/APM. Chance are that if you can get it booting (no small feat sometimes) then you can get it working. > but I expect it will work just fine when I'm ready to give it a > try. > > Jamie Bowden > -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net