From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 08:03:26 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 6952537B404 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CE443F75 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.218]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19magB-0006cg-00; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:03:20 -0700 Received: from [207.217.78.201] by EarthlinkWAM via HTTP; Tue Aug 12 08:03:19 PDT 2003 Message-ID: <7551391.1060700599918.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:03:14 -0500 (GMT) From: Sean Welch To: spadger@best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Web Access Mail version 3.0 cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Hot swap of bay devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:03:26 -0000 I read your account of successfully swapping devices in an HP notebook and just had to give it a try on my Dell Inspiron 8000. Unfortunately it didn't work so well. Would you be so kind as to list out the exact steps you use? Here is what I did (I normally use a second battery in the bay) under 4.8-RELEASE: 1) Remove battery. 2) Plug in Sony CDRW unit 3) Run atacontrol info 1 and see CDRW unit 4) Run atacontrol mode 1 and see mode ??? 5) Run atacontrol mode 1 WDMA2 0 and get hung xterm 6) Run atacontrol mode 1 and still see mode ??? 7) Run atacontrol reinit 1 and get hung xterm 8) Run atacontrol mode 1 and still see mode ??? 9) Run atacontrol detach 1 and get hung xterm 10) Run atacontrol info 1 and still see CDRW unit 11) Run atacontrol detach 1 and get hung xterm 12) Remove CDRW unit and replace battery 13) Run atacontrol list and still see CDRW listed 14) Check ps -ax | grep ata and see: 17284 p2- D 0:17.51 atacontrol mode 1 WDMA2 0 16578 p5- D 0:17.77 atacontrol reinit 1 17068 p5- D 0:18.15 atacontrol detach 1 18837 p5- D 0:16.95 atacontrol detach 1 Sean