Hot/Warm swap for laptop devices

[Senectus .]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:08:27 +0000, paul marwick
<paul.marwick at virgin.net> wrote:
> I have a couple of IBM Thinkpads, a T20 and a T23. Both work well with
> Ubuntu. However, I'm wondering about support for swapping items in
> their swap bays - is it possible to (for instance), eject the DVD drive
> and replace it with the floppy without shutting down? If so, how does
> it need to be set up?
> 
At a guess I'd say umount the device then pop it out.. 
Hell.. I might give it a go later (on the weekend.. as I don't have
any spare devices with me).

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