Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:49:39 -0400 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop using a SATA drive Message-ID: <55DFA213.4030304@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <20150828000118.31f33a35.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAPi0psvT5aaHR7kU%2B28qwVDdutyMn7LjhFUGZRWctz4gGfgvgw@mail.gmail.com> <20150824214252.53aa04c6.freebsd@edvax.de> <55DEF869.1010202@sneakertech.com> <20150828000118.31f33a35.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> That would surely be possible if the device in question > would implement a proper reaction to the "eject" command. > If it does, and how it does it, is up to the manufacturer. > Let's say you send the "eject" command to the drive - the > firmware then says goodbye to the host - the device file > disappears. ---- > Yes - mostly the software inside the device, which we > commonly call firmware. On USB, and to a certain extent, > on SATA, the device identifies to the system and enters > a communication with it: stating what device class, who > built it, which model, what capabilities are available > and so on. If the firmware is able to delete that > connection (which is, after all, a _data_ exchange, > not primarily an electric connection), the OS would > act accordingly by removing the device file entry. This line of reasoning doesn't make any sense, or at least it's not related to what I was talking about. Let me try phrasing it a different way: 'diskutil eject foo' will kick the disk off an OSX system and remove its entry from /dev, and this functionality works across all devices and adapters regardless of make or model. Whatever the 'eject' command is doing, it's clearly entirely software side within the OS*. Being software, FreeBSD should be capable of the same, especially considering both OSs have such a close common heritage. *(unless you're claiming all devices everywhere have implemented mac-specific commands in their firmware, but that wouldn't really make sense either since if it's everywhere any other OS could use it too)home | help
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