Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

[Robert Hancock]

Stephen Clark wrote:
> I tried this on 2.6.20.2 it applied to libata with some fuzz and I had 
> to manually edit libata.h
> When I did a shutdown I still got the click/pop.
>
> I also noticed the last thing displayed on the lcd before it goes blank is
> Synchronizing SCSI Disks - then the click/pop.
>
> HTH,
> Steve

That patch on its own will not help, you also need Tejun's 
stop-on-shutdown patch, otherwise the kernel will not try to stop the 
disk before powering off.

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