From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 17: 5:22 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C55D237B718; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:05:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02164; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:35:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:35:15 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: John Baldwin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c a Cc: Luigi Rizzo , "[S_ren Schmidt]" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Josef Karthauser Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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