From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Dec 28 14:48:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A25837B506 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:48:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA06363; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:48:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBSMlxP18038; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:47:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15404.63134.587662.419656@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:47:58 -0700 To: Lukas Ertl Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some questions concerning Thinkpad T20 In-Reply-To: <20011228192133.V300-100000@korben> References: <20011228192133.V300-100000@korben> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD runs pretty well on my Thinkpad T20 (details can be found at > ), but I still have some > questions: > > *) can I get the "hotswap" feature of DVD drive and floppy drive to work > without having to reboot each time I want to change drives? (I get all > kind of error messages from "Device not configured" to "Device busy" and > system deadlocks and even kernel panics when I try to switch drives when > the system is running.) Probably not, since it requires a special driver under windows to work correctly. Someone would have to write a similar driver for FreeBSD, and I doubt IBM would be forthcoming in the programming information to do it. > *) can I get the DVD drive to run in DMA mode? Currently it only runs in > PIO mode. It runs fine in DMA mode. Try adding the following to /boot/loader.conf hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" > *) I guess noone has tried to write an IrDA stack yet, so I can't use the > Infrared port? That is correct. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message