From: Reid Hekman <reid_hekman@yahoo.com>
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suspend support for IDE
Date: 10 Mar 2002 18:10:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1015805489.15071.10.camel@zeus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020310005213.1D8BB8959A@cx518206-b.irvn1.occa.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020310005213.1D8BB8959A@cx518206-b.irvn1.occa.home.com>
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 18:52, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> > > Why should I tell the drive to power down? It is going to loose its
> > > power, anyway (I believe in both S3 and S4).
> >
> > So it can shut itself down nicely and do any housework it wants to do
> > (like flushing the cache if the cache flush command isnt supported.. its
> > optional in older ATA standards)
>
> Or, in the case of newer IBM TravelStars, so that the drive can unload
> its head properly instead of having to do an uncontrolled emergency unload
> that shortens the drive's life and makes an awful screeching noise.
Eeep. Have we just set the wayback machine for 15 years ago? I don't
remember seeing PARK.COM in /sbin recently.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Reid
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-11 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-08 18:02 Suspend support for IDE Pavel Machek
2002-03-08 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 18:33 ` benh
2002-03-09 21:03 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-09 22:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-10 0:52 ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-03-11 0:10 ` Reid Hekman [this message]
2002-03-11 5:47 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-03-10 8:23 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-03-10 22:16 ` Derek J Witt
2002-03-10 22:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-11 12:15 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-09 22:08 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-09 13:02 ` Martin Dalecki
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203101801150.30628-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-03-11 0:44 ` Derek J Witt
2002-03-11 1:01 ` Mark Hahn
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