From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Dec 3 12: 9:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from martens.math.ntnu.no (martens.math.ntnu.no [129.241.15.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A33B14FF9 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:09:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hanche@math.ntnu.no) Received: (qmail 4729 invoked from network); 3 Dec 1999 20:08:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (13799@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Dec 1999 20:08:32 -0000 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hotswapping devices X-Mailer: Mew version 1.92.4 on Emacs 19.34 X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <19991203210832L.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 21:08:32 +0100 From: Harald Hanche-Olsen X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 19 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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