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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to Joe Monk    |
|    Re: drivers    |
|    10 Jul 21 03:05:01    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 6:57:48 PM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:       > > Ok, so how about plugging in the USB to the computer       > > and letting the computer load the driver instead of the       > > OS loading the driver?              > Your question doesnt make sense. Im not going to plug in my       > USB drive until I want to read my data from it. So when would       > the hardware load the driver versus the OS loading the driver?              I don't know if plugging in a USB device causes an interrupt,       but if it does, the BIOS/UEFI gets control and does its stuff,       and then informs the OS via an agreed interrupt that the OS       hooked in to that there is a new device available?              BFN. Paul.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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