Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT)

[Jesse Guardiani]

Andy Sparrow wrote:

> 
>> 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?

Yes. It exists. I use it under 5.1-RELEASE.

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