How to stop attached USB device / send IRP_MN_REMOVE_DEVICE?
Simon 'corecode' Schubert
corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Wed Aug 15 01:19:27 PDT 2007
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Sven Hazejager <sven-freebsd at hazejager.nl> writes:
>> No, camcontrol does not support this over USB. Windows XP demonstrates
>> it is technically possible, and I do not believe it is fully safe to
>> disconnect the drive (even when unmounted), as the drive then is not
>> able to park its heads, which it DOES do under XP.
> All modern disks (since at least the early 1990s) automatically park
> their heads when they lose power. There is no need to do it in
> software.
So it seems that windows is switching off the power of the devices when you select "eject". I can see that some users might feel more comfortable with this behaviour.
cheers
simon
--
Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\
Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ /
Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \
Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \
More information about the freebsd-hackers
mailing list