Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

[Robert Hancock]

Francesco Pretto wrote:
> Yes, windows XP could handle better the power button pressed event
> (causing the hd not to go to emergency parking, even when forced
> shut-down, most of the times). But regarding a normal shut-down cycle,
> isn't this a regression? You don't solve a regression adding a feature
> (IMHO).

It's a feature that's in drivers/ide (I believe) but isn't in libata or 
the SCSI layer.

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