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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives?
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:39:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43814163.1050103@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5aROj-119-5@gated-at.bofh.it>

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
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-11-21  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2005-11-21  3:39         ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-11-21  0:27 Does Linux support powering down SATA drives? Nicolas Mailhot
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2005-11-20 12:20 Douglas Gilbert
2005-11-19 17:41 Marc Perkel
2005-11-19 19:01 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-19 19:00   ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-19 19:14     ` Marc Perkel
2005-11-19 19:43       ` Jeff Woods
2005-11-19 20:25     ` Alan Cox
2005-11-19 20:21       ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-19 20:30         ` Ondrej Zary
2005-11-19 21:49         ` Alan Cox
2005-11-19 21:20       ` Marc Perkel
2005-11-19 23:04         ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-20  7:22           ` asmith
2005-11-20 15:53             ` Marc Perkel
2005-11-20 16:04               ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-11-20 16:07                 ` Marc Perkel
2005-11-20 16:17                   ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-11-20 16:08             ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-21 16:21             ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21 16:51               ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-21 17:34                 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21 17:14             ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2005-11-20  1:59       ` Rogério Brito
2005-11-20 23:55       ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-21  8:48         ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-11-20  1:54   ` Rogério Brito
2005-11-20  0:57 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2005-11-21 15:43   ` Mark Lord
2005-11-21 15:49     ` Marc Perkel

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