Re: patch to put IDE drives in sleep-mode after an halt

From: Erik Mouw (J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL)
Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 08:20:48 EST


On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:03:49PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> I am submitting a patch to kernel/sys.c that walks through all
> IDE drives (#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE, of course), and issues a
> "sleep" command (as code in hdparam) to each one of them right before
> the kernel halts. Here goes the diff:

What was wrong with "hdparm -Y /dev/hd*" in the halt/reboot script that
you need to do it in kernel?

Erik

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