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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I believe its doing that to cause the hard drives to flush the on-drive write buffers.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> From: J. Scott Amort [<A HREF="mailto:jsamort@shaw.ca">mailto:jsamort@shaw.ca</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:40 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: reboot is shutting down hard drives</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Hi All,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I noticed a strange thing after doing all the updates to my </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> FC2T3 system</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> (as of May 12), and running kernel 2.6.5-1.358. When I do a system</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> reboot, it actually powers down the hard drives (the message </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> comes up as</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Shutting down hda, Shutting down hdb, etc.) Then you can hear the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> drives spinning down as if the machine was powering off, but </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> it reboots</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> as expected. It then takes 10-20 seconds or so for the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> drives to power</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> up again before the boot process continues. It is kind of </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> annoying, and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> seems unnecessary. Does anyone else experience this behavior?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Best,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Scott</FONT>
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