Two Battery Issue

[Peter Teuben]

I presume you did reboot the machine while swapping out the drive with the
battery. I have a T40 and they are similar ik that respect, and I also tried
it once in the hope it would just pickup...    Kind of made sense after my
experiment failed. Suppose you start with the battery, and swapin the DVD.
No way would that (at least on a TP) detect like USB or Firewire. That's
an IDE and they're not hotswap. 

If you are rebooting,that's very odd. It should be controlled with the BIOS,
which sounds like a BIOS issue to me.  That part works fine for my T40.

- peter

On [Wed May 30 08:47], chris at idlelion.net wrote:
> I have a ThinkPad T60 and I swapped out the optical drive for an extra 
> battery. The main battery is a 9-cell Li-Ion, and the bay battery is a 
> 3-cell equivalent Li-Polymer.
> 
> I'm running FC6 and Gnome desktop. The gnome-power-manager seems to 
> display the total charge correctly, in that it knows that when the bay 
> battery reaches 0% (or maybe 1% sometimes) that the total charge is still 
> at 75 or 80%.
> 
> The ThinkPad uses the bay battery first, and when that gets drained, the 
> machine suspends immediately with no notice or chance to stop. While it's 
> not catastrophic, it is a bit annoying.
> 
> Is there any configuration I can tweak to avoid the suspend, or should I 
> file a bug report?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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