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

Jesse Guardiani <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization WingNET
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
> 
> Perhaps. Although I've done it sufficient numbers of times without
> incident that I don't consider it luck, rather working as designed.
> 
> I don't really see how useful ATAPI RAID support is without the ability
> to hot-swap devices?
> 
> And, as atapicontrol seems to be geared mostly towards that, well...

You mean atacontrol, right? I don't have an atapicontrol under 5.x or 4.x.

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