Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6] don't put IDE disks in standby mode on halt on Alpha | | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2004 18:26:33 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 17:49, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > Spinning the disks down across a 'halt' on Alpha is even > worse than doing that on reboot on i386 (assuming the > boot device is IDE disk). > Typically, the sequence to boot another kernel is: > # halt > kernel shuts down, firmware re-initializes, > then on firmware prompt we type something like > >>> boot -file new_kernel_image.gz > > Unfortunately, the firmware does not expect the IDE drive > to be in standby mode and reports 'bootstrap failure' on > the first and all subsequent boot attempts until the > drive spins up, which is extremely annoying and > confuses users a lot.
how do you flush the disks' writecache then? Halting the disk seems to be the only reliable way to do so.
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