SlimSelect bay

These things can be found in an increasing number of systems today. One can put a floppy drive, a secondary battery, or an IDE device in it. Since there's a USB floppy with this toshiba, one CD or DVD module and an 'empty' module (to reduce weight without the risk of damaging the SlimSelect bay) are sold with it.

Since it can be hotswapped, it's nice to know that Linux also supports hotswapping. You'll need some extra tool to register and deregister IDE-devices; you can find it at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ1377/. Although written for a Dell C600, it works on this system too⁹. I don't think there's extra kernel-support needed, but might be wrong there.