Re: prevent hdd spin-down at system halt

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 11:01, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> is it possible to disable the spin-down (or powerdown) of hard disks
> when halting the system, via the kernel cmd-line or some
> configurations in /proc?

If someone provides the shutdown infrastructure to determine the
difference between shutdown/poweroff/return-to-firmware its easy. IDE
already has an ifdef to handle this on Alpha SRM because the higher
levels don't provide the ideal information.

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