Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:16:27 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org (John Baldwin), luigi@info.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), sos@FreeBSD.org ([S_ren Schmidt]), cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, joe@tao.org.uk (Josef Karthauser) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c a Message-ID: <200103150716.IAA80205@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010315113515.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at "Mar 15, 2001 11:35:15 am"
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It seems Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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. Well, you pains are about to be over, I hope to commit the first very rudimentary version of atacontrol in the next days, that will allow you to do the detach/attach while running, which I btw have done for a long time with my latitude and it still lives :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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