From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266155AbUIALpD (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 07:45:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266169AbUIALox (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 07:44:53 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:59530 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266155AbUIALol (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 07:44:41 -0400 Subject: Re: prevent hdd spin-down at system halt From: Alan Cox To: Dirk Jagdmann Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <5d0f6099040901030137a7f641@mail.gmail.com> References: <5d0f609904083107571d78a41@mail.gmail.com> <5d0f6099040901030137a7f641@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094035338.2399.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:42:19 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 11:01, Dirk Jagdmann wrote: > is it possible to disable the spin-down (or powerdown) of hard disks > when halting the system, via the kernel cmd-line or some > configurations in /proc? If someone provides the shutdown infrastructure to determine the difference between shutdown/poweroff/return-to-firmware its easy. IDE already has an ifdef to handle this on Alpha SRM because the higher levels don't provide the ideal information.