Hotswap on A30p help needed

[larrystotler]

Ok, I've got a couple of questions. But first, here's my hardware/software setup:

Thinkpad A30p (1.2/1GB/320GB)
Ultrabay IDE caddy(IBM branded I believe)
Ultrabay SATA Caddy (Not IBM branded)
Various Ultrabay optical drives
Ultrabay 2000 Battery
Thinkpad Dock II with Ultrabay(thinkwiki says it supports hotswap).
openSUSE 11.1 kernel v2..6.27

Ok, I've read up on hotswapping on Thinkwiki and used the provided scripts.

Running the "ultrabay-eject" script seems to do nothing.

Running the "ultrabay-insert" script also appears to do nothing.

However, with the A30p, I have 2 Ultrabay 2000 bays, & the dock also has an ultrabay.

So, how do I specify which Ultrabay to eject as well as insert? It would be inconvient to have to eject & re-insert each device to swap out one.

Has anyone had luck getting hotswap to work on the A30p?

any suggestions would be appreciated.

[AMATX]

When you click on the tray icon to disconnect an ultrabay device, a list of the eligible devices appears and you click on the specific device. Very easy, not much to it; just be sure you select the correct device. I used to run an A31p with mucho extra goodies hooked up to is(similar to you) and it was not a problem...

[larrystotler]

When you click on the tray icon to disconnect an ultrabay device, a list of the eligible devices appears and you click on the specific device. Very easy, not much to it; just be sure you select the correct device. I used to run an A31p with mucho extra goodies hooked up to is(similar to you) and it was not a problem...

That would be great advice IF I was running Windows.

I run Linux.

Thanx

[Neil]

I'm pretty sure Gnome has the option to eject drives, but don't know about other DE. Are you a KDE user? What happens when you run this in a terminal?

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devkit-disks --detach /dev/sd[whatever]

Of course, you know to replace the [whatever] with the number of the device you want to eject.

[AMATX]

That would be great advice IF I was running Windows.

I run Linux.

Thanx

OOPS! Missed that little pertinent tidbit...

[larrystotler]

OOPS! Missed that little pertinent tidbit...

No problem. Haven't had time to mess with it anyway.

However, now I am having a battery issue with hot swapping.

I have 2 Ultrabay 2000 batteries. When I first got them, I could remove the Ultrabay 2000 battery & the system would stay running with the onboard battery. Now, when I remove the ultrabay battery, the system dies completely. Doesn't matter if it's booted or sitting in BIOS. If I pull the Ultrabay battery, the machine dies. I looked in the CMOS but can't find anything I could have screwed up.

& Yes, the onboard battery(which I have 2 of) is charged. I can restart the machine with it.

Kinda makes the ultrabay batteries less useful now.

Any suggestions?