Ejecting a [physical] drive from a laptop bay...

[Bikehead]

Thomas Taylor wrote:

>On Thursday 13 October 2005 15:44, Bikehead wrote:
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>>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"
>>  _`\<,_
>> (*)/ (*)
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>Please clarify this point.  Are you trying to eject the "drive" or a "cd/dvd" 
>in the drive?
>
>"/proc/acpi/ibm/bay" is not really a device in the normal sense.  Look 
>in /etc/fstab for the device name (assuming a cd/dvd).  It should look 
>something like /dev/hdc with a mount point of /media/cdrecorder or similar.
>
>If it is the actual physical drive you want to eject, that is not possible 
>with software.  You need to look at the computers users guide for how to 
>replace a drive.
>
>HTH,
>Tom
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Sorry if I wasn't clear:  in my original mail 'ejecting the drive from 
the bay' means being able to swap the physical drive out from the 
internal bay of the laptop.  This is possible in windows and there is 
some discussion about it in various mailing lists, but it usually 
concerns older kernels.  I'm hoping to find more up-to-date instructions 
about swapping the drive out.


Thanks,

-- 
.   __o    Brian "la lumaca"
  _`\<,_
 (*)/ (*)