(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Hi. Has anyone had success with puppy linux and the IBM second hard drive system which is inserted into the (removable) optical drive slot on many of their laptops? I have an IBM T22 with the ultrabay 2000 slot. I have just got hold of the hdd caddy for this slot, put in a working 20 gig hd and given it a whirl. The disk spins up, the laptop bios correctly identifies the hd, but puppy doesn't see the disk.
I have tried it with my frugal installs of lucid puppy 5.11, puppy 430 and puppy 217.1, and also with ubuntu lucid lynx full install.
Lucid puppy loads the thinkpad_acpi module on this laptop - is there a driver missing from it for the ultrabay?

Ultrabay 2000 is loaded using ide-disk driver in the kernel, or possibly ata_piix

see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ultrabay

However Lenovo warn of possible failure due to CD driver preference"hdc=ide-scsi" in grub files

see http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-50366

also http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_ho ... ay_devices

HTH

Aitch

Thanks Aitch, but not making much progress - some of the stuff in the links is a bit beyond me. Not too worried about hotswapping - pulling the drive out of the bay while running puppy gives me a loud beeping which won't shut up unless I reboot. I'd be happy enough to swap drives while shutdown. Where do I look for ide-disk or ata_piix? Tried modprobe and got module not found, can't see them when I run lsmod (doing this in lucid 5.1.1). Sorry to sound so dumb, but not at all sure of what I'm looking for.

Forgot to add - none of my grub menu files have hdc=ide-scsi in them. Seem to remember something in early puppies about the cd drive running in scsi emulation - does that still apply?