From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261832AbUEJVOw (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 17:14:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261851AbUEJVOw (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 17:14:52 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.home.nl ([213.51.128.197]:62118 "EHLO smtpq2.home.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261832AbUEJVOs (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 17:14:48 -0400 Message-ID: <409FF068.30902@keyaccess.nl> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 23:13:12 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040117 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.6 "IDE cache-flush at shutdown fixes" References: <409F4944.4090501@keyaccess.nl> <200405102125.51947.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200405102125.51947.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Rene, can you test these (incremental) patches? > + if (drive->usage != 1) > + return 0; Only this one does not make a change. > - if (drive->usage != 1) > + if (drive->usage != 1 || !drive->removable) With this one, the cache flushing noise is no more, but still a problem unfortunately. With or without these patches, 2.6.6 powers down the drive during reboot. This is very annoying, seeing as how it immediately needs to spin up again for POST. Thanks for now! Rene.