Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:15:21 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Bernd Schmidt <> | | Subject | Re: last write to drive issued with write cache off? |
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Re spindown: I don't see a reason why spindown via IDE 'sleep' command > should sound differently from spindown due to poweroff. > > So it is interesting to understand why Bernd's system started to emit > 'funny noises'. > > Maybe shutdown script does not realize that drives are spun down and cause > disk accesses which lead to spinup? That will be > > normal -> spin down -> spin up -> poweroff and spindown > > and indeed may sound funny :-)
I think the explanation may be that the drives are not spun down at the same time, but with a one or two second delay, making it sound different than usual.
Bernd
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