From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 14:43:06 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 41F6837B401 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5415343FA3 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:43:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19mKSg-0000w6-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:44:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19mKSf-0000vy-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:44:17 +0200 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19mKRP-0002Dr-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:42:59 +0200 From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:42:59 -0400 Organization: WingNET Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20030811013921.GB24952@infidyne.com> <20030811004931.R72106@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news 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 Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:43:06 -0000 Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Peter Schuller wrote: > >> The laptop comes with one primary battery and, as an opion, an extra >> battery that fits into the "Ultra Bay" (replacing the CD-ROM). As I >> realized after some time, the presence of the extra battery causes hangs. >> When I have the CD-ROM in the bay instead of the extra battery, there are >> no such problems. But when the battery is in, the machine hangs totally >> when: > > 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. This can be overcome on my IBM A30p by detaching the CD-ROM with atacontrol, suspending, removing the cdrom drive, resuming, and reinitializing everything. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net