Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:10:17 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell D600 odds-n-ends Message-ID: <20041014151017.BE62E5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:03:54 %2B0200." <20041014150354.GA29421@droopy.unibe.ch>
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> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:03:54 +0200 > From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:31:33PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > > Secondary battery/DVD swapping - no worky (doesn't find the new > > > device, crashes, etc) > > this worked some time ago on my thinkpad. i had to atacontrol detach first, > then swap drive for battery. may be worth a try. if it doesn't work, you > can also try the following chain of actions and permutations thereof: > (detach), swap, suspend, resume, (attach) > of course attaching and detaching the battery doesn't make sense, so you > leave out these when necessary. You can use atacontrol to detach a drive and allow its removal and to add a new drive. One thing that does not work is adding a battery. Nate is working on code to support this, but it's not at the top of his list of things to get working in the ACPI code, so you can't add a battery, yet. IF added, nothing bad happens...the system just does not recognize that it's there. NOTE!!!! If you boot with a battery and want to replace it with a disk, you MUST do "atacontrol detach 1" before inserting the disk. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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