Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:15:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Thinkpad CD-ROM hotplug with ATA_CAM Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1109170113380.1411@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tqS1hQOopud8SQ-7K3HJRadLDYD33k_%2BcW6SEcp-5=iA@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E70C404.3010104@acm.poly.edu> <4E70D30E.6080002@FreeBSD.org> <4E734749.2010106@acm.poly.edu> <4E734F60.4070005@FreeBSD.org> <CAN6yY1tqS1hQOopud8SQ-7K3HJRadLDYD33k_%2BcW6SEcp-5=iA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I fear that BIOS may have some issue. I have a T43 and found that, if > I booted with the DVD > installed, atacontrol (this was prior to ATA-CAM) would allow me to > detach, but if I then > inserted a hard drive and tried to attach it, the system would lock up. > > If I booted with a hard drive in the bay, I could detach, change > drives, and attach with no > problems. I don't recall if I could replace the hard drive with a DVD, > though and I don't have > physical access to that system ATM. Still, this sounds rather similar > to what I saw and it > was unique to the T43. I have had several other ThinkPads, all of > which allow me to swap > out the DVD for a different drive including the T520 I am using to > enter this reply. It's not entirely clear that this is relevant, but my T400 has very odd behavior with the CD drive either disappearing or taking a very long time to probe on warm boots. Linux (or grub? I don't remember.) also has some trouble finding the root device (hard disk) on warm boots, but FreeBSD does fine. -Ben Kaduk
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