[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] changing dvd - hdd on the fly
Hello, Thanks to all for the help. For those who have IBM T43 and want to hotswap UltraBay devices please refer to: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_UltraBay_devices HTH Pat pat wrote: Hello, I have notebook IBM TP43 and I have second HDD in the box. The box can be plugged in instead of the DVD drive. And I want to be able to switch these (HDD - DVD) on the fly (this is possible in windows so why not in Linux ?-) ). The HW interface is UltraBay. Could someone point me to the solution or show me the way? Thanks a lot Pat -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] changing dvd - hdd on the fly
Hello, I have notebook IBM TP43 and I have second HDD in the box. The box can be plugged in instead of the DVD drive. And I want to be able to switch these (HDD - DVD) on the fly (this is possible in windows so why not in Linux ?-) ). The HW interface is UltraBay. Could someone point me to the solution or show me the way? Thanks a lot Pat -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] changing dvd - hdd on the fly
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 12:39 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, I have notebook IBM TP43 and I have second HDD in the box. The box can be plugged in instead of the DVD drive. And I want to be able to switch these (HDD - DVD) on the fly (this is possible in windows so why not in Linux ?-) ). The HW interface is UltraBay. Could someone point me to the solution or show me the way? Thanks a lot Pat Hi! I've got a Dell Media Bay which seems to be very similar. For me it only works after rebooting or after resuming from hibernate. Have you already tried to unmount it, then simply exchange them? What kind of SATA-controller do you have? If you have to use the Intel driver (look into your bios if you can use AHCI instead), you might want to play with ata_piix.force_pcs=x kernel parameter (if its a module, load it with force_pcs=x as a parameter). x can be 0,1 or 2. Neither works for me. Look here: http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html As usually: I'm not responsible if you break your hardware/filesystems when following my advices. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] changing dvd - hdd on the fly
pat wrote: Hello, I have notebook IBM TP43 and I have second HDD in the box. The box can be plugged in instead of the DVD drive. And I want to be able to switch these (HDD - DVD) on the fly (this is possible in windows so why not in Linux ?-) ). The HW interface is UltraBay. Could someone point me to the solution or show me the way? Thanks a lot Pat Well, I found this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-347355-highlight-ultrabay.html and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-349274-highlight-ultrabay.html I'm not sure it will help but it may give you some ideas. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
