[Lula] hotplugging a modular cdrom

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Feb 13, 2008 10:16 AM, Michael Elkins <me at cs.hmc.edu> wrote:
> I wanted to rip an audio CD, but I usually keep a second battery in the
> modular bay on my laptop.  I recalled that in the past I had to shutdown
> the laptop and reboot with the CD drive in the bay in order to get it
> recognized.  After closing all my applications and syncing the disk, I
> decided to throw all caution into the wind and just try to insert the CD
> drive just to see what would happen.  To my surprise, the kernel
> recognized it and I was able to go on to rip the CD.  Linux has come a
> long way!

A friend of mine works at Stratus -- look them up.  He works on a
hardened Linux design that allows you to swap out CPUs in the middle
of an long compute operation, and never even lose the data :-)  Of
course, this technology costs nearly $100k to get for your data
center...heh
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."