Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:54:00 -0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives?
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On Nov 19 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-11-19 at 09:41 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > Trying to save power consumption.
> 
> SATA not yet, USB you could however.

And what about Firewire? I see that MacOS X automatically spins down the
drive when I unmount it from a Mac.

Would it be possible to have this feature available for userspace (where
I would think would be the proper place for the policy controlling this
thing)?


Thanks for any comments, Rog?rio Brito.

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