Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT)

Bruce M Simpson bms at spc.org
Mon Aug 11 03:25:47 PDT 2003


On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:12:48AM -0700, Andy Sparrow wrote:
> > Are you swapping the CDROM and battery while FreeBSD is booted? FreeBSD
> > does not handle this at all and will get really upset if you attempt it.
> 
> Really? 4.x with APM handles swapping between a secondary HDD, CD-ROM, 
> DVD & DVD/CD-RW in the secondary bay on my Omnibook just fine.

I've had problems hot-swapping ultrabay devices on the T22 under APM.
Under ACPI, hot-swapping works fine. (both under 5.1-RELEASE)

> I thought that was what atacontrol detach/attach were intended for... 
> Does this not exist on 5.x?

those were MFC'd.

BMS


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