Hot swap of bay devices [IBM T30]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Tue Aug 12 21:15:38 PDT 2003


On Tuesday 12 August 2003 15:12, Tobias Roth wrote:
> the above sequence works repeatedly, but with one annoyance:
> whenever the drive gets inserted during runtime, the machine
> starts to beep and doesn't stop until the drive gets removed.
> this does not interfer with normal operation, however.

Far as I can tell, the UltraBay 2000 is too smart for its own good; it wants 
to be able to notify the OS that a device has been inserted or removed, and 
the BIOS complains (that beeping; also, it doesn't really approve of removing 
a device) if the OS hasn't registered an UltraBay 200 handler of some kind.  
I don't know if the specs are available from IBM to develop a handler that 
would make the BIOS happy.

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