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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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery at kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]
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