Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:43:20 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674) |
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Alan wrote: > Stick some printk calls in drivers/ata/libata-eh.c in ata_eh_suspend, or > turn on all the ATA debug and shutdown, the code should issue a cache > flush followed by a standbynow1 command for each disk. > > Alan
I believe it runs on suspend, but we don't run that code on normal shutdown, do we?
Tejun Heo had a patch for sd that could (optionally) trigger a START STOP UNIT command to spin the disk down after synchronizing the cache before shutdown, but I haven't heard anything of it lately..
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