Ejecting a drive from a laptop bay...

[Brandon Keepers]

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 00:44 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> 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!!!

Yes, it is a software function!  If you remove the drive while Linux is
running, it freezes.  I used to be able to do this on the 2.4 kernel by
doing an "rmmod ide-scsi".  Earlier in the 2.5/2.6 days, I was able to
use a nice program called hotswap (used to be at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ1377/, but appears to be gone), but that quit
working around 2.6.6. Anyone have any ideas about how to make the kernel
let go of IDE devices?

> HTH,
> Tom
> 
> -- 
> Tom Taylor
> Linux user #263467
> Federal Way, WA
> Iraq war: 1,962 US soldiers dead and counting

Thanks,
Brandon