Hot/Warm swap for laptop devices

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Dec 7 01:44:49 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 19:08 +0000, paul marwick wrote:
> I have a couple of IBM Thinkpads, a T20 and a T23. Both work well with
> Ubuntu. However, I'm wondering about support for swapping items in
> their swap bays - is it possible to (for instance), eject the DVD drive
> and replace it with the floppy without shutting down? If so, how does
> it need to be set up?

Currently, no. With a bit of luck, we should be able to support it for
Hoary (on Thinkpads, at least)

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org





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