Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:36:03 +0200 From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hot swap of bay devices [IBM T30] Message-ID: <20030812193603.GA6745@speedy.unibe.ch> In-Reply-To: <20030812211345.T582@korben.in.tern> References: <7551391.1060700599918.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <bhb0kr$72o$1@sea.gmane.org> <20030812191211.GA6670@speedy.unibe.ch> <20030812211345.T582@korben.in.tern>
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wheee, with suspending before inserting the drive, i get no more beeps. and if i boot without the drive, i can attach it as well if i suspend before inserting it (or to be exact, it attaches itself when i resume)! so i got a working (almost-)hot-swapable ultra-bay on my T30. thanks for the help! On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:15:15PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Tobias Roth wrote: > > > encouraged by the recent reports of hot-swapping bay devices, i > > tried the following on my IBM T30 (recent -current): > > > > - booting with the drive > > - atacontrol detach 1 > > - removing the drive > > - reinserting the drive > > - atacontrol attach 1 > > - mounting a cdrom > > This works on my T20, too. > > > the above sequence works repeatedly, but with one annoyance: > > whenever the drive gets inserted during runtime, the machine > > starts to beep and doesn't stop until the drive gets removed. > > this does not interfer with normal operation, however. > > I always do a suspend/resume to stop the beep. *Sometimes* that crashes > the machine. :-) > > > the following did not work: > > > > - booting without the drive > > - inserting the drive > > - atacontrol attach 1 > > > > the drive did not show up. > > That's what I'm experiencing, too.
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