From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off.
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:26:05 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074759964.12536.65.camel@laptop-linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401220813.i0M8DX4Q000511@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
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Hi.
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:13, John Bradford wrote:
> > This spins down the disk(s) when you're just doing do a reboot. That's
> > fairly irritating and could affect reboot times if one has many disks.
>
> I think it is an attempt to force some broken drives to flush their
> cache, but I wonder whether it will simply move the problem from one
> set of broken drives to another :-).
Yes, they were trying to get caches flushed. If this attempt is
misguided, that's fine. Is there a better way?
Regards,
Nigel
--
My work on Software Suspend is graciously brought to you by
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-22 1:42 PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22 7:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-22 8:13 ` John Bradford
2004-01-22 8:26 ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2004-01-22 8:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-22 9:10 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22 16:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-22 17:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-22 10:08 ` John Bradford
2004-01-22 19:19 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-01-22 19:36 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22 19:52 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-01-22 21:07 ` Jeff Garzik
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2004-03-11 21:46 ` Karol Kozimor
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