[TriLUG] Thinkpad T21 : removable floopy vs. removable cdrom

[Glen Ford]

Heath Holcomb wrote:
> 
> Glen Ford wrote:
> > Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> >
> >>Glen Ford wrote:
> >>
> >>>I am running RedHat 7.1 kernel 2.4.3 on an IBM Thinkpad T21.
> >>>
> >>Off this particular, I have just been considering buying a T21.
> >>Are you, Linux, and the T21 all a happy family?
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >>
> > It is a little early to give you a definitive answer. I have been using
> > T21/linux for about two weeks.  What I can say is:
> >       - redhat 7.1 loaded fine.
> >       - kernel upgrade to 2.4.3 worked fine
> >       - apm seems to work.  I have not used power management for any time
> > greater than 10 minutes
> >       - I went from 6.2 to 7.1, so there were things I had not expected:
> >               - xinetd
> >               - dig instead of nslookup
> >       - Coverted my ipchains to iptables.
> >       - my php/mysql combo got upgraded and "things" did not work quite
> > right. I mucked around with rebuilding php-4.0.4pl1
> >       - I am die hard fvwm user, so took some time to get that to my liking.
> >       - Vmware works fine.  Although I am currently trying to get samba to
> > work.
> >
> >
> > /Glen
> >
> 
> I've got one as well, and I'm very happy with it. I've got a similar
> setup with RH 7.1. I was able to get my token ring, ethernet and
> wireless PCMCIA cards all working with fairly minimal hassle. APM seems
> to work fine. I can suspend and my sound still works when I restore,
> which was a problem on some of the other Thinkpad models I've used,
> notably the A21m. But that may just have been RH 7.0. Generally it's
> very responsive (I've got 512 megs of RAM, not sure what the default is)
> and the display looks great. I can swap my CD/DVD-ROM and my floppy out
> without rebooting (not exactly hot-swap, because I do have to suspend
> first). Supposedly there's a piece of software out there somewhere that
> will let you do a real-hot swap. As far as laptops go, it's a pretty
> good environment for Linux - the hardware all works with little or no
> tweaking.
> 
> Heath
> 
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Heath,
	Thank you for your suggestion.  I did suspend my system and swap out on
drive for the other. Still does not work. The /dev only seems to have
entry for which ever device was present at boot time. /dev/fd0 or
/dev/cdrom  
I will keep working on it.

/Glen

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Glen Ford
System Administrator
Responsible Solutions Ltd.
gford at responsible.com