Tejun Heo wrote: > sd doesn't stop (unload head) on shutdown. This behavior is necessary > for multi initiator cases. Unloading head by powering off stresses > the drive and sometimes produces distinct clunking noise which > apparently disturbs users considering multiple reports on different > distributions. halt(8) usually puts the drives to sleep prior to > shutdown but the implementation is fragile and it doesn't work with > sleep-to-disk.
I wonder if this sort of thing (cache flush + spin down) is the sort of thing that ought to be done to near-line storage at suspend time too, though one would want allow_restart = 1 before doing such a thing. --D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
