Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Suspend support for IDE | | From | Reid Hekman <> | | Date | 10 Mar 2002 18:10:14 -0600 |
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On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 18:52, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > > > Why should I tell the drive to power down? It is going to loose its > > > power, anyway (I believe in both S3 and S4). > > > > So it can shut itself down nicely and do any housework it wants to do > > (like flushing the cache if the cache flush command isnt supported.. its > > optional in older ATA standards) > > Or, in the case of newer IBM TravelStars, so that the drive can unload > its head properly instead of having to do an uncontrolled emergency unload > that shortens the drive's life and makes an awful screeching noise.
Eeep. Have we just set the wayback machine for 15 years ago? I don't remember seeing PARK.COM in /sbin recently.
Sorry, couldn't resist. Reid
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