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

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

Chuck Ebbert wrote:

>Stephen Clark wrote:
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>>Mark Lord wrote:
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>>>Mark Lord wrote:
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>>>>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").
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>>>Scratch that -- operator failure.  ;)
>>>The patch makes no difference over hibernates in the SMART logs.
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>>>It's still logging extra Power-Off_Retract_Count pegs,
>>>which it DID NOT USED TO DO not so long ago.
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>>>Now I'll poke at the shutdown again.
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>>>Meanwhile, Stephen:  Could you try without this line in the patched file:
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>>>       case ATA_16:
>>>+               dev->needs_sync_cache = 1;
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>>>Ie. comment out that last "dev->needs_sync_cache" line.
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>>No joy - even with that line commented out I get a click and my
>>Power-Off_Retract_Count has incremented.
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>I found a solution of sorts on Fedora 6:
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>Edit /etc/rc0.d/S01halt, changing the third-from-last line so it reads:
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>HALTARGS="-d -h -n"
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>Then use the halt(8) command to shut down and turn off the power manually.
>No click and the "retract" counter does not increment. (Even this procedure
>incremented the counter until I changed the script.)
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>Seems safe, using the IDE drivers, since they sync the cache anyway.
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Hi Chuck,

I got a chance to try this and it works for me also. No pop and my 
retract counter does not increment.

Steve

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