Talk:How to hotswap Ultrabay devices

I created a new HAL script, but I would like some people to try it out as I have only tested it on a T41 and T60. Save it as /etc/hal/fdi/information/10-thinkpad-ultrabay.fdi

Especially anyone with a A-series or W-series as those have either multiple Ultrabays or HDDs which might require special rules to be defined, to locate the Ultrabay device(s). If you have such a machine, please post a comment, and your lshal output.

To check the effect, look at your lshal output, the section for your optical disk (/dev/sr0 typically) or your 2nd hdd (/dev/sdb typically) should have storage.hotpluggable = true after restarting your hal deamon or rebooting.

Note that the script was tested on Fedora 11 with HAL 0.5.12, and might not work properly with older HAL versions. For instance it seems older HAL verions had storage.bus = scsi or info.parent was apparently at one point storage.physical_device. If the storage.bus issue is real, I should be able to catch it in the hal script by using <match key="storage.bus" string_outof="pci;scsi">

Lastly, with Gnome 2.26 I did not notice any change in behaviour with this. But KDE might be different.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->

<!--
HAL config file to set ThinkPad Ultrabay eject capability flag.
Note that ThinkPad model matching is done on a partial match, so T40 will also match T40p, which is what we want.

If your ThinkPad model is not listed, please check with lspci what PCI ID your disk controller is
-->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.formfactor" string="laptop">
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.vendor" prefix="IBM">

        <!-- will match IBM ThinkPad T20, T21, T22, X20 and X21 -->
        <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.version" contains_outof="T20;T21;T22;X20;X21">
          <match key="storage.bus" string="pci">
            <match key="info.parent" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_7111_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0">
              <merge key="storage.hotpluggable" type="bool">true</merge>
            </match>
          </match>
        </match>

        <!-- will match IBM ThinkPad T23, T30, X22, X23, X24 and X30 -->
        <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.version" contains_outof="T23;T30;X22;X23;X24;X30">
          <match key="storage.bus" string="pci">
            <match key="info.parent" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_248a_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0">
              <merge key="storage.hotpluggable" type="bool">true</merge>
            </match>
          </match>
        </match>

        <!-- will match IBM ThinkPad R50, R51, T40, T40p, T41, T41p, X31, X32 and X40 -->
        <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.version" contains_outof="R50;R51;T40;T41;T42;X31;X32;X40">
          <match key="storage.bus" string="pci">
            <match key="info.parent" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24ca_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0">
              <merge key="storage.hotpluggable" type="bool">true</merge>
            </match>
          </match>
        </match>

        <!-- will match IBM ThinkPad R52, T43, T43p and X41 -->
        <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.version" contains_outof="R52;T43;X41">
          <match key="storage.bus" string="pci">
            <match key="info.parent" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2653_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0">
              <merge key="storage.hotpluggable" type="bool">true</merge>
            </match>
          </match>
        </match>

      </match>
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.vendor" prefix="LENOVO">

        <!-- will match Lenovo ThinkPad T60, T60p and Z61 -->
        <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.version" contains_outof="T60;Z61">
          <match key="storage.bus" string="pci">
            <match key="info.parent" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27df_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0">
              <merge key="storage.hotpluggable" type="bool">true</merge>
            </match>
          </match>
        </match>

        <!-- will match Lenovo ThinkPad R60 and X60 -->
        <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.version" contains_outof="R60;X60">
          <match key="storage.bus" string="pci">
            <match key="info.parent" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27c4_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0">
              <merge key="storage.hotpluggable" type="bool">true</merge>
            </match>
          </match>
        </match>

        <!-- will match Lenovo ThinkPad R61, T61, T61p and X300 -->
        <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.version" contains_outof="R61;T61;X300">
          <match key="storage.bus" string="pci">
            <match key="info.parent" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2850_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0">
              <merge key="storage.hotpluggable" type="bool">true</merge>
            </match>
          </match>
        </match>

        <!-- will match Lenovo ThinkPad R400, R500, T400, T500, W500, X200 and X301 -->
        <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.version" contains_outof="R400;R500;T400;T500;W500;X200;X301">
          <match key="storage.bus" string="pci">
            <match key="info.parent" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2929_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0">
              <merge key="storage.hotpluggable" type="bool">true</merge>
            </match>
          </match>
        </match>

      </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>