From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
To: alex14641@yahoo.com (Alex Davis)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in drivers/ide/ide.c (2.4.19)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:09:11 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209141709.g8EH9Bts002237@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020913023744.78077.qmail@web40510.mail.yahoo.com> from "Alex Davis" at Sep 12, 2002 07:37:44 PM
> Second, why do we need to put the disks on standby before halting?
So that data that is in their internal RAM cache is flushed before the power is switched off.
> I ask because putting the disks on standby puts my hard drives into a coma!!
> When I power up after a halt, I have to go into the BIOS and force auto-detect to wake
> them back up. I've removed the "standby" code and things seem to be functioning normally.
That is very strange.
> I have an Epox 8K7A motherboard with two Maxtor Hard drives (model 5T040H4).
Never experienced that with a Maxtor hard disk. Best person to ask would be Alan.
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-14 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-13 2:37 Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in drivers/ide/ide.c (2.4.19) Alex Davis
2002-09-13 13:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-13 15:10 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-13 15:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-13 17:54 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-14 0:22 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-13 15:19 ` Alex Davis
2002-09-13 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-13 17:39 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-14 1:08 ` Alex Davis
2002-09-14 0:21 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-14 17:09 ` jbradford [this message]
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2002-09-14 1:01 Alex Davis
2002-09-14 9:53 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-14 13:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-14 13:42 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
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