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