hot swap laptop multibay not working?

John Ruschmeyer jruschme at gmail.com
Sun May 29 12:22:38 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 15:50 -0400, D wrote:
> hi,
> i'm running hoary on an ibm T42.
> i had a 2nd battery and a cdrw drive.
> normally i have the 2nd battery installed, but when i need the cdrw
> drive, i need to reboot for it to be deteched by the OS.
> 
> is this normal behavior for hoary, or should it work? i know back in
> the day when i was running Windows i was able to hot swap devices in
> the multibay.
> 
> any sugestions on how to fix this?

Take a look at the 'hotswap', 'hotswap-gui', and 'hotswap-text' packages
from universe. It allows swapping of hotbay devices on some laptops with
proper reprobing of devices.

<<<john>>>





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