Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:26:05 +1300 | | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | | Subject | Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off. | |
Hi.
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:13, John Bradford wrote:
> > This spins down the disk(s) when you're just doing do a reboot. That's
> > fairly irritating and could affect reboot times if one has many disks.
>
> I think it is an attempt to force some broken drives to flush their
> cache, but I wonder whether it will simply move the problem from one
> set of broken drives to another :-).
Yes, they were trying to get caches flushed. If this attempt is
misguided, that's fine. Is there a better way?
Regards,
Nigel
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