On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 03:27 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Hi - > > I have a IBM Thinkpad 2631 dock that should be arriving on Wedensday. > > Question 1 - does the PCI slot work with Fedora? I would want to put a > USB 2.0 card in it. If it does work, does it interfere with > docking/undocking of the thinkpad w/o shutting down? > > Question 2 - Do the Cardbus slots work? I would want to use a USB 2.0 > card in it (I have one that works in Linux) if the PCI slot doesn't > work. If the PCI slots are functional under Linux than Q2 doesn't matter > to me. Well - I can now personally verify that the CardBus slots on the dock do work in FC5. > > Question 3 - UltraBay 2000 - I've seen reports that it works, but can > not be hot swapped. I would want to put a HD in it. Is there maybe some > magic I can use with hal (or whatever) so that the hd in the UltraBay > 2000 is seen as a removable drive? It would be nice if I didn't have to > power off every time I undocked, and un-docking simply notified the OS > that the drive had been removed (like what happens whe a USB hard drive > is removed). *snip*
