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

[Jesse Guardiani]

Jamie Bowden wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 
>> Doug White 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.
> 
>> This can be overcome on my IBM A30p by detaching the CD-ROM with
>> atacontrol, suspending, removing the cdrom drive, resuming, and
>> reinitializing everything.
> 
> I can do this on my Dell without suspending.  You may want to try it out
> and save yourself a few extra steps.

Hmmm. Right you are. I guess I was assuming too much. Thanks!


>  I use atacontrol to switch between
> my spare battery, LS-120, Zip250, and DVD/CD-RW bay modules regularly.  I
> have just upgraded from 4-S to 5.1-R, and haven't checked functionality in
> 5.1 yet,

Again, I'm using 5.1-RELEASE w/APM. Chance are that if you can get it booting
(no small feat sometimes) then you can get it working.


> but I expect it will work just fine when I'm ready to give it a
> try.
> 
> Jamie Bowden
> 

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