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In message <20040617140822.M58154@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes:

>Hm, on closer look it seems the disk controller/driver doesn't let the 
>drive go.

My conclusion too.  This is probably because it usually would have
paniced the system to do so.

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