Hi... I'm not really familiar with the problem, but you can absolutely slow down the halting procedure.
It's simplay a bash file found at /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt...so go ahead and add more sleep commands (or increase the time of sleeps already found in it)... The converse by the way is also true for those that want a quicker halt...you can edit the file and decrease the sleep times and comment out the parts that aren't applicable to your system. If you spend enough time playing with the files in /etc/rc.d and replace your bios with a linuxbios, you can get amazing startup and shutdown times! Thanks, Sam On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:05:08AM +0200, NiteOwl wrote: > Hello all. > > I have a strange problem with RH7.3 and my hard disks: When I power-off the > system hard disks emit a strange sound (It seems like some kind of "brake" is > in action =:/ ): I think this is the same sound that was hearable on some HDs > on old AT systems, when powered off. > > I recently swapped my old Gigabyte motherboard with a new, practically > identical, Soltek one to avoid some minor glitches affecting the former. I > left unchanged my old RH7.3 installation as well as all the HW setup I had > with the old motherboard. The system works perfectly... Except the strange > sound. ;( > > When I shutdown the PC all HDs are turned off before powering down the > system, this worked perfectly with the old motherboard as the disks emitted > no sound when powered off, but this does not occur with the new one. > > I think that the halt procedure is run "too fast" with the new motherboard. > HDs are not powered off properly before the motherboard turns off, so this > hardware "brake" is started by hard disks thus emitting the strange sound: > I tried to halt the system without powering off the motherboard. The hard > disks are powerd off properly and emit no sound at all. Than I can power off > the PC manually and all goes well. > > What do you think of this "problem"? Is my diagnose correct? > > If I am right, is there a way to slow down the halting procedure just a bit, > to permit HDs to shutdown properly? > > regards, > > --Tony > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Sam Ockman, Chairman and CEO Tel: 415-358-2600 Fax: 415-896-6742 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN PENGUIN COMPUTING - Simplifying the Solution Process [tm] www.penguincomputing.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
