Ejecting a drive from a laptop bay...

[oleksandr korneta]

on 10/15/2005 03:44 AM Thomas Taylor wrote:
> 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!!!
> 
in facts it is a software function. ms_windows_xp has an icon in the
system tray for stop/remove hardware operation, similar to one for usb
devices. But this one, I suspect, really does matter.


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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta