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

[Phillip Susi]

Did anything ever come of this?  We still have users complaining about 
this.  Does this patch resolve the issue?  I can't seem to load it up 
right now; the site says it is down for maintenance.

Francesco Pretto wrote:
> 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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