From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 17: 2:27 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2527137B718; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:02:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2F11gG88729; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:01:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) 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: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:01:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Daniel O'Connor" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c a Cc: Josef Karthauser , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "[S_ren Schmidt]" , Luigi Rizzo Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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