On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:05:49AM -0600, Ed Santiago wrote: > [ This is a very late followup to a thread from April: > > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2006-04/msg00287.html ] > > Relevant context is: > > >> Well, Greg, the reason I was asking was because I wanted to know if the LED > >> of my drive could be switched off when I umount it. In windows I noticed that > >> the LED is switched off when the drive is ready to be unplugged. Is it that they > >> might be removing power to the drive? Could we acheive a similar result? > > > >Yes, Windows is removing power to that specific port. > > Question: is it possible to achieve LED-off through another means? For _all_ devices? I really doubt it, as they vary so much. But try digging through the SCSI spec to see if there is such a command to do just that. good luck, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
