Re: Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT)

Doug White <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Andy Sparrow wrote:

>
> > Are you swapping the CDROM and battery while FreeBSD is booted? FreeBSD
> > does not handle this at all and will get really upset if you attempt it.
>
> Really? 4.x with APM handles swapping between a secondary HDD, CD-ROM,
> DVD & DVD/CD-RW in the secondary bay on my Omnibook just fine.

I'd count you lucky.  BTW don't upgrade to 5.X if you want to keep your
sanity -- HP's ACPI code does NOT work.

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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