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DateThu, 22 Jan 2004 21:26:05 +1300
FromNigel Cunningham <>
SubjectRe: 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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