Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:45:38 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell D600 odds-n-ends Message-ID: <20041014194538.E773F5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:34:36 %2B0200." <20041014193436.GA21533@speedy.unibe.ch>
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> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:34:36 +0200 > From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 08:10:17AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > 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. > > ah, right, i just verified this. i am now not so sure whether this worked > at all (ie with apm), or whether i merely inserted the cdrom drive after > boot back then when i last tested this. > however, since on my thinkpad, the second battery is always drained > completely before the primary one is touched, the only disadvantage i get > is that i have an inaccurate remaining battery life display, until the > second battery has been emptied. after that, for the life cycle of the > primary battery, things are back normal. It's been a while since I ran with apm, but I think that adding a battery worked. I'm less sure that removing a disk works, but I think it did. I've been running with ACPI for long enough that I forget that apm is still commonly used. -- 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
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