Hi! > > Besides, freeze is absolutely necessary for STD right ? > > As I was saying: I'm unconvinced it's needed anywhere. DMA needs to be stopped, or you get data corruption. So you need either FREEZE or SUSPEND during STD. We are currently using SUSPEND, but people don't like their disks going spindown, spinup, spindown during STD; so better solution is needed. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!
