Re: T500 cdrom drive never stops spinning until mount.

From: Nick Bowler
Date: Wed May 12 2010 - 09:19:20 EST


On 22:35 Tue 11 May , Nick Bowler wrote:
> Mounting the disk also causes it to stop spinning (and it remains
> stopped after unmounting it).

Sorry, this was a lie. As soon as the disk spins up again after
unmounting (or if it was unmounted while still spinning), it will
continue to spin forever.

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Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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