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>12.34. Hot-Swapping Devices (MultiBay, SelectBay, ..)</H1
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> Some laptops (usually the more expensive ones) come
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with a free slot, which may bear a second hard disk or CD/DVD drive.
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Every manufacturer seems to name it differently,
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names like MultiBay(TM) and SelectBay(TM) are common. Different
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Linux tools are available to handle these hot-swapping devices.
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> thotswap is part of the
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>Toshiba(tm) Linux Utilities</A
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it makes it possible to hotswap devices in the SelectBay.
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>Hotswap</A
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is a utility to register and deregister hotswappable IDE
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hardware. It is written to be used on Laptops with some sort of
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hardware bay to remove the module from the machine without rebooting
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it.
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Note that this utility is not required to insert or remove batteries
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or floppy disk drives; only for IDE devices.
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> The hard disk management tool <B
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>hdparm</B
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comes with a hot swap option.
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> Some bays can (in some cases only) carry a second battery. Currently I
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don't know how Linux can handle this. For example are there
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any tools, which show battery stats for the second battery?
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