swapping things stopped working.

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Sun Oct 24 12:46:28 PDT 2004


David Gilbert wrote:
> I have a Dell D800 laptop.  It seems to me that somewhere very recent
> --- in the runup to the 5.3 release likely, the ACPI event that occurs
> when I change what's in my bay (either a DVD writer or a battery) has
> stopped occuring.
> 
> Whichever device is in on boot seems to work OK, but changing devices
> doesn't seem to work any longer.
> 
> Did something change recently that would affect this?

Figuring out what date this occurred would help.  Did it occur after 
RELENG_5 or before?  If you're changing devices, I assume you need to 
manually run atacontrol attach right?  We don't have autoprobe for 
legacy devices yet.

-- 
Nate


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