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SubjectRe: last write to drive issued with write cache off?
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Bernd Schmidt wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > "To prevent loss of customer data, it is recommended that the last write access
> > > before power off be issued after setting the write cache off."
> >
> > Standard 2.4 doesn't do this. 2.4.19-ac issues cache flushes.
>
> Is this what's been causing my harddrives to make funny noises on shutdown
> recently?

Your so called funny noise is the process of flushing cache and putting
your drive to sleep in a spin down. It only happens if you are going to
shutdown thw system. If you are warm booting or rebooting you only get a
flush cache.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

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