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

[Francesco Pretto]

2007/2/22, Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx>:
> I believe it runs on suspend, but we don't run that code on normal
> shutdown, do we?
>
> Tejun Heo had a patch for sd that could (optionally) trigger a START
> STOP UNIT command to spin the disk down after synchronizing the cache
> before shutdown, but I haven't heard anything of it lately..

Was this?
http://www.nabble.com/(fwd)--PATCH--sd:-implement-stop_on_shutdown-t3049703.html

Not ready for inclusion yet? Tomorrow i'll give it a try, hoping it
will apply to my conf. My actually shutdown procedure is to reboot on
windows Xp and shutdown from there: i'm starting to become
frustrated...
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