Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Mark Lord wrote:

>Mark Lord wrote:
>  
>
>>With the patch applied, I don't see *any* new activity in those S.M.A.R.T.
>>attributes over multiple hibernates (Linux "suspend-to-disk").
>>    
>>
>
>Scratch that -- operator failure.  ;)
>The patch makes no difference over hibernates in the SMART logs.
>
>It's still logging extra Power-Off_Retract_Count pegs,
>which it DID NOT USED TO DO not so long ago.
>
>Now I'll poke at the shutdown again.
>
>Meanwhile, Stephen:  Could you try without this line in the patched file:
>
>        case ATA_16:
>+               dev->needs_sync_cache = 1;
>
>Ie. comment out that last "dev->needs_sync_cache" line.
>
>Cheers
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No joy - even with that line commented out I get a click and my
Power-Off_Retract_Count has incremented.

Steve

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