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
