Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives?

Tomasz Torcz
2005-11-20T16:17:38Z

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:07:07AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Tomasz Torcz wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:53:49AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>>
> >>That's something that amazes me - why aren't there anu SATA CD/DVD
> >>drives? Seems to me that CD/DVD could have the same benifits of using a
> >>thin cable and eventually getting away from the IDE interface.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You can rip one from an Xbox 360 :)
> >
>
> Oh? What does the Xbox have in it?

Xbox *360* - http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2610&p=4
Very thin on details, unfortunately.

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