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Subject: Re: hdparm and removable IDE?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ron House <house@usq.edu.au>
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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

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