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From: Reid Hekman <reid_hekman@yahoo.com>
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suspend support for IDE
Date: 10 Mar 2002 18:10:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1015805489.15071.10.camel@zeus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020310005213.1D8BB8959A@cx518206-b.irvn1.occa.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020310005213.1D8BB8959A@cx518206-b.irvn1.occa.home.com>

On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 18:52, Barry K. Nathan wrote: 
> > > Why should I tell the drive to power down? It is going to loose its
> > > power, anyway (I believe in both S3 and S4).
> > 
> > So it can shut itself down nicely and do any housework it wants to do
> > (like flushing the cache if the cache flush command isnt supported.. its
> >  optional in older ATA standards)
> 
> Or, in the case of newer IBM TravelStars, so that the drive can unload
> its head properly instead of having to do an uncontrolled emergency unload
> that shortens the drive's life and makes an awful screeching noise.

Eeep. Have we just set the wayback machine for 15 years ago? I don't
remember seeing PARK.COM in /sbin recently. 

Sorry, couldn't resist. 
Reid 



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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-11  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-08 18:02 Suspend support for IDE Pavel Machek
2002-03-08 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 18:33   ` benh
2002-03-09 21:03   ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-09 22:05     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-10  0:52       ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-03-11  0:10         ` Reid Hekman [this message]
2002-03-11  5:47           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-03-10  8:23       ` Rogier Wolff
2002-03-10 22:16         ` Derek J Witt
2002-03-10 22:37           ` Alan Cox
2002-03-11 12:15       ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-09 22:08     ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-09 13:02 ` Martin Dalecki
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203101801150.30628-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-03-11  0:44 ` Derek J Witt
2002-03-11  1:01   ` Mark Hahn

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