Ejecting a drive from a laptop bay...

[Bikehead]

Paul Lemmons wrote:

> look at the "eject" command: man eject
>
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 15:44 -0700, Bikehead wrote:
>
>>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
>>
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>>.   __o    Brian "la lumaca"
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Umm,  the 'eject' command is for ejecting the media in the drive not the 
whole drive from the laptop bay right?  Sorry, but I don't understand 
how this command helps me with swapping the drive out of the laptop bay.

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