Ejecting a drive from a laptop bay...

[Paul Lemmons]

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"
>   _`\<,_
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