From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 01:12:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D05537B401 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 01:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CRWdog.demon.co.uk (c-67-161-102-60.client.comcast.net [67.161.102.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E0943F85 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 01:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79657120; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 01:12:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Doug White In-Reply-To: Message from Doug White <20030811004931.R72106@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 01:12:48 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20030811081248.79657120@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> cc: Peter Schuller cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:12:54 -0000 > Are you swapping the CDROM and battery while FreeBSD is booted? FreeBSD > does not handle this at all and will get really upset if you attempt it. Really? 4.x with APM handles swapping between a secondary HDD, CD-ROM, DVD & DVD/CD-RW in the secondary bay on my Omnibook just fine. I never managed to obtain a secondary battery so haven't tried that - but I'd expect disabling/ejecting/inserting dissimilar mass storage devices to make the OS cranky if anything did. I thought that was what atacontrol detach/attach were intended for... Does this not exist on 5.x? Cheers, AS