Hot/Warm swap for laptop devices

[Brian Puccio]

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?

I have an R51 (1836BDU to be exact) and removing the built-in
CD-RW/DVD-ROM causes the computer to hardlock.