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

[Jesse Guardiani]

Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Peter Schuller wrote:
> 
>> The laptop comes with one primary battery and, as an opion, an extra
>> battery that fits into the "Ultra Bay" (replacing the CD-ROM). As I
>> realized after some time, the presence of the extra battery causes hangs.
>> When I have the CD-ROM in the bay instead of the extra battery, there are
>> no such problems. But when the battery is in, the machine hangs totally
>> when:
> 
> 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.

This can be overcome on my IBM A30p by detaching the CD-ROM with atacontrol,
suspending, removing the cdrom drive, resuming, and reinitializing everything.

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