Ejecting a drive from a laptop bay...

[Thomas Taylor]

On Friday 14 October 2005 11:45, Bikehead wrote:
> Paul Lemmons wrote:
> > look at the "eject" command: man eject
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 15:44 -0700, Bikehead wrote:
> >>I have an IBM T42p.  I am running the latest rawhide system and I wanted
> >>to try ejecting the drive from the bay.  I found some mentiond of
> >>/proc/acpi/ibm/bay which reports the bay status and accepts the command
> >>"eject".  However, when I send 'echo "eject" > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay' the
> >>system freezes.  I googled around and I can't find any documentation on
> >>how one might eject a drive bay that isn't for pre-2.6 kernels.  Can
> >>someone give me some pointers on what I might be doing wrong if anything?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>--
> >>.   __o    Brian "la lumaca"
> >>  _`\<,_
> >> (*)/ (*)
>
> Umm,  the 'eject' command is for ejecting the media in the drive not the
> whole drive from the laptop bay right?  Sorry, but I don't understand
> how this command helps me with swapping the drive out of the laptop bay.
>
> --
> .   __o    Brian "la lumaca"
>   _`\<,_
>  (*)/ (*)

You need to read your user manual for the laptop, especially the section about 
removal and installation of drives.  This IS NOT a software function!!!

HTH,
Tom

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Tom Taylor
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