From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 15:10:18 2004 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 AC31816A4CF for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:10:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826F743D49 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:10:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP id IBA74465; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:10:18 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id BE62E5D04; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:10:17 -0700 (PDT) To: Tobias Roth In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:03:54 +0200." <20041014150354.GA29421@droopy.unibe.ch> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:10:17 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20041014151017.BE62E5D04@ptavv.es.net> cc: Eric Anderson cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell D600 odds-n-ends X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:10:18 -0000 > Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:03:54 +0200 > From: Tobias Roth > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:31:33PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > > Secondary battery/DVD swapping - no worky (doesn't find the new > > > device, crashes, etc) > > this worked some time ago on my thinkpad. i had to atacontrol detach first, > then swap drive for battery. may be worth a try. if it doesn't work, you > can also try the following chain of actions and permutations thereof: > (detach), swap, suspend, resume, (attach) > of course attaching and detaching the battery doesn't make sense, so you > leave out these when necessary. You can use atacontrol to detach a drive and allow its removal and to add a new drive. One thing that does not work is adding a battery. Nate is working on code to support this, but it's not at the top of his list of things to get working in the ACPI code, so you can't add a battery, yet. IF added, nothing bad happens...the system just does not recognize that it's there. NOTE!!!! If you boot with a battery and want to replace it with a disk, you MUST do "atacontrol detach 1" before inserting the disk. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634