Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB storage problems on OHCI..

Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29T14:54:26Z

> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds () osdl ! org>
> Date: 2003-09-23 15:46:21
>
> Normal users consider hot-pluggable
> to be "I can rip the thing out by hand".

Yes.

Meanwhile, much (all except flash?) actual usb-storage now commercially
available is Not hot-pluggable in this sense. Instead, "ata hdd lose
data in response to a pin 1 reset issued without op x35
"SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE". I've heard same of" writeable "dvd. And loss of
bus power can kill any write cache in a drive, of course."

Pat LaVarre