Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:35:15 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, "[S_ren Schmidt]" <sos@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c a Message-ID: <XFMail.010315113515.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010314170123.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On 15-Mar-01 John Baldwin wrote: > > 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. Hmm OK.. I guess those sneaky laptop makers have done something to make it safe to pull the IDE devices with the power on. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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