Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750912AbVKUDjV (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:39:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750950AbVKUDjV (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:39:21 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:43748 "EHLO pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750912AbVKUDjU (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:39:20 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:39:15 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives? In-reply-to: <5aROj-119-5@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <43814163.1050103@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <5aF0K-82E-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <5aH2x-2ub-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <5aIrE-4BY-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <5aK0x-6Wi-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <5aROj-119-5@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 20 asmith@vtrl.co.uk wrote: > I would agree with your view on IDE becoming obsolete on hard drives, > but I as yet, am not aware of any CD/DVD drives with a SATA interface. They are still uncommon, but do exist. I suspect part of the reason is that the advantages of SATA aren't as compelling for optical drives, and not everybody has a machine that supports SATA. As pointed out, the XBox 360 uses an SATA DVD-ROM drive.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/