Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: New ac patch??? | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:57:11 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <E166VIr-0004ik-00@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> > Not exaclty. It is a 48Gig drive in a dell inspiron 8000. I think it is >> > IBM but the logs do not show a brandname. I can try open up the case tonight >> > if you want to know for sure? >> >> It's an IBM IC25T048ATDA05-0 to be precise. > >Thanks. It seems IBM laptop drives are the ones that specifically need this >fix. That ties in with the windows 98 reports/microsoft fixes.
I have Debian bugreports saying that it's not only IBM laptop drives. It happens on Seagate, Samsung, Maxtor as well. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=110804&repeatmerged=yes
Note that the final fix (putting the drives in standby mode) is not discussed in this bug report - I experimented first with turning off the write cache in the shutdown scripts which kind of worked but feels not quite right - you might need just enough write activity after that to completely flush the on-disk cache.
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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