Ejecting a drive from a laptop bay...

[Thomas Taylor]

On Saturday 15 October 2005 07:38, oleksandr korneta wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --
> regards,
> Oleksandr Korneta

Guess laptops have come a long way since I had one.  That was in the early IBM 
Thinkpad days and drives were not replaceable without physically opening the 
case.  Appologies for an incorrect answer.

Tom

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