From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 20 17:38:49 2002 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 3F9E237B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5EBD43E42 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:38:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from metrol@metrol.net) Received: (qmail 15564 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2002 00:38:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO metlap.priv.metrol.net) ([66.92.40.28]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Sep 2002 00:38:49 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael Collette To: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH Subject: Re: Thinkpad CD/RW Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:38:38 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200209201647.42004.metrol@metrol.net> <1032568431.4586.2.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1032568431.4586.2.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lists MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209201738.38132.metrol@metrol.net> 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 On Friday 20 September 2002 05:33 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 19:47, Michael Collette wrote: > > Been looking to possibly pick up a CD/RW for this Thinkpad T23 of mine > > here, and I was just wondering if anyone else has one? Just looking for > > some kind of confirmation that this might actually work properly under > > FreeBSD. > > > > More specifically, I'm looking to purchase one of the ultrabay models > > rather than some kind of external setup. > > I can't speak to your exact setup, but I have an Ultrabay DVD-CD/RW in > my T30 and it works fine, aside from Ultrabay not being hot-swappable > under FreeBSD (there's some business where the OS has to notify the > hardware that it's ready for the swap, otherwise the Ultrabay locks out > whatever device has been inserted/removed). Ohhh, very cool. I'm not looking to do any swapping of devices while powered up anyway, so that is the least of my concerns. Just wanted to make sure that I could actually write to the CD/RW without any hassles. BTW, any clever bits for the kernel config to get this to play? Later on, -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message