reboot is shutting down hard drives

[Kenneth Benson]

I believe its doing that to cause the hard drives to flush the on-drive
write buffers.

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