From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Dec 28 17: 7: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA7037B41F for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:06:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBT1EXF16748; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112290114.fBT1EXF16748@mass.dis.org> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Lukas Ertl , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@mass.dis.org Subject: Re: Some questions concerning Thinkpad T20 In-Reply-To: Message from Nate Williams of "Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:47:58 MST." <15404.63134.587662.419656@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:14:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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 > > *) can I get the "hotswap" feature of DVD drive and floppy drive to work > > without having to reboot each time I want to change drives? (I get all > > kind of error messages from "Device not configured" to "Device busy" and > > system deadlocks and even kernel panics when I try to switch drives when > > the system is running.) > > Probably not, since it requires a special driver under windows to work > correctly. Someone would have to write a similar driver for FreeBSD, > and I doubt IBM would be forthcoming in the programming information to > do it. Actually, you should be fine using atacontrol to swap the drive in and out; ACPI should take this one further and automate the process (but we are not ready for this yet). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message