Re: Dell D600 odds-n-ends
Tobias Roth <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 08:10:17AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > You can use atacontrol to detach a drive and allow its removal and to > add a new drive. One thing that does not work is adding a battery. Nate > is working on code to support this, but it's not at the top of his list > of things to get working in the ACPI code, so you can't add a battery, > yet. IF added, nothing bad happens...the system just does not recognize > that it's there. ah, right, i just verified this. i am now not so sure whether this worked at all (ie with apm), or whether i merely inserted the cdrom drive after boot back then when i last tested this. however, since on my thinkpad, the second battery is always drained completely before the primary one is touched, the only disadvantage i get is that i have an inaccurate remaining battery life display, until the second battery has been emptied. after that, for the life cycle of the primary battery, things are back normal. cheers, t. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"