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On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 12:39 +0100, pat wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I have notebook IBM TP43 and I have second HDD in the box. The box can be |
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> plugged in instead of the DVD drive. And I want to be able to switch these (HDD |
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> <-> DVD) on the fly (this is possible in windows so why not in Linux ?-) ). The |
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> HW interface is UltraBay. Could someone point me to the solution or show me the way? |
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> Thanks a lot |
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> Pat |
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Hi! |
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I've got a Dell Media Bay which seems to be very similar. For me it only |
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works after rebooting or after resuming from hibernate. Have you already |
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tried to unmount it, then simply exchange them? |
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What kind of SATA-controller do you have? If you have to use the Intel |
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driver (look into your bios if you can use AHCI instead), you might want |
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to play with "ata_piix.force_pcs=x" kernel parameter (if its a module, |
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load it with "force_pcs=x" as a parameter). x can be 0,1 or 2. Neither |
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works for me. |
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Look here: http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html |
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As usually: I'm not responsible if you break your hardware/filesystems |
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when following my advices. |
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