From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:05:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:05:00 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.254] ([81.2.110.254]:41724 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:04:59 -0500 Subject: Re: hdparm and removable IDE? From: Alan Cox To: Ron House Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3E83BB8E.6050303@usq.edu.au> References: <3E812F8E.2030200@usq.edu.au> <1048689184.31839.7.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3E83BB8E.6050303@usq.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1048871860.5055.37.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 (1.2.1-4) Date: 28 Mar 2003 17:17:40 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 03:03, Ron House wrote: > Thanks Alan. What is needed to do this? Is umounting and then > unregistering with hdparm -U enough to do this, or is something else needed? If the hardware can do it then most of the time yes. Just very very occasionally it might blow up in your face, but thats stuff which is going to take a lot of fixing and wont get fixed for 2.4 I fear