Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in drivers/ide/ide.c (2.4.19)

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 19:22:43 EST


On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:

> > I dont think so. We can't go around with 15,000 "My bios cant XYZ"
> > options and "My PCI bus ...".
>
> How about a kernel boot/module load option then?
> Something like "ide0=ata66,noshutdown"

So use reboot rather than halt. What's the issue here? Drives won't be
shut down on a reboot, and only use halt if you are to switch the power
off. (And if necessary, bug Epox about BIOS updates. Look as though the
board was not too old.)

-- 
Matthias Andree
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