Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:01:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "[S_ren Schmidt]" <sos@FreeBSD.org>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c a Message-ID: <XFMail.010314170123.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010315112122.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On 15-Mar-01 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 15-Mar-01 John Baldwin wrote: >> > At least I don't think you are supposed to swap IDE HW with the power on. >> You can in Windows. You just have to bring up the bay manager and tell it >> you >> are about to do so first. > > Ahh OK... > > Any idea how that mechanism works? > (ie how it powers the device down) I think it powers down when you remove the device by virtue of the device losing power. :) I think Windows just needs the notification to basically do the equivalent of flushing all the buffers and unmounting it, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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