Hot/Warm swap for laptop devices

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:28:28 -0500, Brian Puccio <brian at brianpuccio.net> wrote:
> 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.

are you unmounting it first?


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