From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263860AbUEXDKQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 23:10:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263862AbUEXDKP (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 23:10:15 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:60038 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263860AbUEXDKM (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 23:10:12 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Daniel Pittman Subject: Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems. Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:09:08 +1000 Message-ID: <87fz9qseqz.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> References: <200405151506.20765.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040524024136.GB2502@zero> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e7hzxEJhWLDDfbg6EklVdDxbqBQ= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 24 May 2004, Tom Vier wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 06:25:51PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I would think that if the drive didn't properly flush cache on >> shutdown that it might cause corruption. Feel free to tell me no >> drive would bahave like that ;-) > > why not add a one or two second delay before? i doubt any drive holds > its writeback that long. This was the solution adopted by IBM, for their Thinkpad laptop line, in a BIOS update last year. My system now delays two seconds before turning off, with the stated purpose "avoiding disk corruption"... Daniel -- The English have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. -- Malcom Bradbury, _Eating People is Wrong_