Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: New ac patch??? | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:43:15 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <E166TZh-0004T8-00@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> 2.4.13-ac will "flushing ide drives" on shutdown. This helped my laptop >> from not '/dev/hdax no cleanly unmounted, checking' on startup. I'm sure >> the system did not crash before that. > >You have a box with an IBM 20Gig 2.5" drive (just out of interest) > >> 2.4.15-pre6 does not have this code and now sometimes some filesystems >> seem not to be clean anymore on startup... >> Will the ide_notify_reboot be included in 2.4.15 final? > >Probably not - the taskfile/LBA48 code wants more testing first. I believe >you can pick up the relevant patch from www.linux-ide.org however, thanks >to Andre
As I posted here last week, it's trivial to put the IDE drives into standby mode just before powerdown instead. It has the same effect and it would take just a few lines of code.
The Debian /sbin/halt does this now just before it asks the kernel to poweroff, and it fixes this problem just fine. It would be better if the kernel did it though.
Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
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