Dell Inspiron 8600 - Hot-swapping the bay.

[Peter Robinson]

> I've been trying to find information on how to hot-swap the drive bay
> on Dell laptops - ala windows style - and still get to use the DVD
> drive after inserting it while the system is running - and not having
> the system hang when removing the bay while booted.
>
> Has anyone managed to do this? I haven't been able to find any
> packages in FC's list that seems to manage this at all...

Along this line of thinking what's the status of support for other
hotplugging of things like docking stations on laptops?

pete