Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 02:46:43 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop using a SATA drive Message-ID: <20150828024643.c0d5d2dd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <55DFAB0B.7020307@sneakertech.com> References: <CAPi0psvT5aaHR7kU%2B28qwVDdutyMn7LjhFUGZRWctz4gGfgvgw@mail.gmail.com> <20150824214252.53aa04c6.freebsd@edvax.de> <55DEF869.1010202@sneakertech.com> <20150828000118.31f33a35.freebsd@edvax.de> <55DFA213.4030304@sneakertech.com> <20150828020029.c3c53813.freebsd@edvax.de> <55DFAB0B.7020307@sneakertech.com>
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On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:27:55 -0400, Quartz wrote:
> > This is possible.
>
> OK, well my question (via Chris' original question) was, is there
> currently a port or package that actually implements this?
Not that I am aware of. Maybe some specific (vendor-supplied)
control software for disk controllers ("RAID controllers")
can do this?
> > However, in regards of disk drives, I wouldn't call this
> > procedure "eject", but maybe better "detach".
>
> I'm not a fan of "eject" either, but that's Apple for you. They've
> always been weird about this sort of mental model; in both OSX GUI and
> classic Mac OS you drag the disk icon into the trash to unmount it. More
> than a few new users were very nervous about that.
There was also a menu entry: "eject floppy disk", and additionally
a keyboard shortcut. I was impressed when I was this on my first
Mac systems - the disk would "magically" come out, there was no
mechanical button for it. Even the Sun Sparc Station 20 and
the Ultra 1 had such kind of floppy disk drive. :-)
> >In retrospect,
> > ye olde "atacontrol" _had_ this functionality. See the dusty
> > historic manual for details. :-)
>
> Wait, so this functionality existed but was removed? What was the
> reasoning behind that?
The deprecation of the old ATA/ATAPI subsystem for accessing
disks and optical units. Today, the "SCSI over ATA" (previously
optional kernel mechanism ATAPICAM) is being used, so atacontrol
doesn't exist anymore - camcontrol is to be used.
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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