Re: temporarly power down disk drive ASAP

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I suspect it is in the 'public domain' as far as knowledge goes, but not
free. IBM is a patent machine and they know from their mainframe
experiences that as soon as you implement an idea in hardware (and now
software too), someone will reverse engineer it and use it for free unless
they have a patent on it. If someone really wants to know, I would search
the patent database and/or watch patents awarded to IBM during the next two
years. They have to get the patent application in before it is 'published'
or they loose the right to apply, OSIB (or so I believe, maybe wrongly).

"Gary G. Little" <glittle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:aUrne.18072$k43.11520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> And asking how IBM does it is a non-sequetor. Those of us that know can't
> say without viollating an NDA with IBM. I highly doubt that IBM has this
> technique in public domain.
>
> --
> Gary G. Little
>
> "David J. Craig" <SeniorDriversWriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:%23h$6$1vZFHA.3132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> How about a name other than 'awinner' and 'ms news'? Why would Microsoft
>> want to give someone an easy lawsuit victory? The SCSI specifications
>> are copyrighted. All you have to do is buy them or find copies of the
>> drafts. My only question is how you can be working on mass storage
>> without the necessary specs. The ATAPI specs are also for sale.
>> Likewise for almost all of the specs for standard hardware.
>>
>> "ms news" <awinner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:OFIPb8qZFHA.1424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> This should get me started, why doesn't MS put this kind of stuff in the
>>> docs, I should know better by now....
>>>
>>>
>>> "Bart Bartel [MSFT]" <bbartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:FlnZ32iZFHA.3928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> You should be able to send a SCSIOP_START_STOP_UNIT to the disk device.
>>>>
>>>> cdb.START_STOP.OperationCode = SCSIOP_START_STOP_UNIT;
>>>> cdb.START_STOP.Immediate = 1;
>>>> cdb.START_STOP.Start = 0;
>>>> cdb.START_STOP.LoadEject = 0;
>>>>
>>>> But you should flush the file systems before spinning down the disk.
>>>>
>>>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>>> rights.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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