Hard disc spins down during reboot

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed May 19 14:41:36 UTC 2004


Am Mi, den 19.05.2004 schrieb Jonathan Rawle um 13:32:

> When I reboot FC2, my IDE hard disc spins down, only to spin up again
> shortly afterwards.

> However, my new serial ATA disc does not spin down.

> Jonathan

Alan Cox on the devel list in "Re: rawhide report: 20040508 changes" on
Sun, 09 May 2004 16:44:52 -0400:

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:24:09PM +0300, Fred New wrote:
> > - more ide cache flush work
> 
> Is it intentional that my hard disk spins down during a reboot now
> with kernels .356 and .358?

Some disks respond to the standbynow request by spinning down.
Alexander


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