Dell D600 odds-n-ends

[Tobias Roth]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 08:10:17AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> You can use atacontrol to detach a drive and allow its removal and to
> add a new drive. One thing that does not work is adding a battery. Nate
> is working on code to support this, but it's not at the top of his list
> of things to get working in the ACPI code, so you can't add a battery,
> yet. IF added, nothing bad happens...the system just does not recognize
> that it's there.

ah, right, i just verified this. i am now not so sure whether this worked
at all (ie with apm), or whether i merely inserted the cdrom drive after
boot back then when i last tested this.
however, since on my thinkpad, the second battery is always drained
completely before the primary one is touched, the only disadvantage i get
is that i have an inaccurate remaining battery life display, until the
second battery has been emptied. after that, for the life cycle of the
primary battery, things are back normal.

cheers, t.