From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 17:55: 6 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from acampi.inet.it (acampi.inet.it [213.92.4.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FC3A37B71A for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:55:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrea@webcom.it) Received: (qmail 2281 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2001 02:54:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webcom.it) (212.239.10.243) by acampi.inet.it with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 02:54:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 4172 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Mar 2001 01:51:27 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 02:51:27 +0100 From: Andrea Campi To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: John Baldwin , Luigi Rizzo , "[S_ren Schmidt]" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c a Message-ID: <20010315025127.D3277@webcom.it> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:35:15AM +1030 X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:35:15AM +1030, 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. AFAIK, on IBM IDE HD it's been safe for quite a few years now... -- If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message