Hot swap of bay devices

[Sean Welch]

I read your account of successfully swapping devices
in an HP notebook and just had to give it a try on
my Dell Inspiron 8000.  Unfortunately it didn't work
so well.

Would you be so kind as to list out the exact steps you
use?

Here is what I did (I normally use a second battery in
the bay) under 4.8-RELEASE:

 1) Remove battery.
 2) Plug in Sony CDRW unit
 3) Run atacontrol info 1 and see CDRW unit
 4) Run atacontrol mode 1 and see mode ???
 5) Run atacontrol mode 1 WDMA2 0 and get hung xterm
 6) Run atacontrol mode 1 and still see mode ???
 7) Run atacontrol reinit 1 and get hung xterm
 8) Run atacontrol mode 1 and still see mode ???
 9) Run atacontrol detach 1 and get hung xterm
10) Run atacontrol info 1 and still see CDRW unit
11) Run atacontrol detach 1 and get hung xterm
12) Remove CDRW unit and replace battery
13) Run atacontrol list and still see CDRW listed
14) Check ps -ax | grep ata and see:

    17284  p2- D      0:17.51 atacontrol mode 1 WDMA2 0
    16578  p5- D      0:17.77 atacontrol reinit 1
    17068  p5- D      0:18.15 atacontrol detach 1
    18837  p5- D      0:16.95 atacontrol detach 1

                                               Sean