Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 21:08:32 +0100 From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hotswapping devices Message-ID: <19991203210832L.hanche@math.ntnu.no>
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The frequent reboots needed whenever you do the most innocent change to a windoze machine has always given us u**x users some good opportunities to look down our noses at the poor windoze users. Hence, it is with considerable pain that I note one situation which windoze handles without rebooting, while FreeBSD cannot: On my Dell Inspiron 3500 (but surely, the same goes for many other laptops as well), I can swap floppy drives, CD-ROM players, and Zip drives in the media bay without shutting windoze down. I just go to a control panel, click a button, swap media, click a button again, and keep right on working. I wonder what it would take to make this sort of thing possible in the BSD world? The answer I want to hear, of course (but don't really expect), is that it already is possible, but that I just don't know it. So what`s the score? - Harald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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