(Answer) (Category) Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : (Category) Hardware Compatibility :
Hot Swappable PowerBook G3 bays
From a post in the linuxppc-users list:

On Sun, Mar 21, 1999, Robert Peterson <rppeters@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:

>Can you swap expansion bay modules in linux?  It be really useful if I
>could, instead of having to reboot the macos switch my cd-rom with my
>zip,floppy, whaterver, and then reboot to liunx.

Expansion bay swapping is supported with recent kernels (I don't know
exactly when it was added, but it's in 2.2.x). Both bays are supported on
G3 Series but ZIP drives still have a couple of problems (see my patches
for this on linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu) and the left bay IDE seems to have some
trouble with interrupts (I don't have an IDE expansion bay device that
fits in the left bay to test with).

You must make sure that you properly unmount any volume used on the
expansion bay device before removing it, of course.

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