linux-kernel - Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

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Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:43:20 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Francesco Pretto <ceztko@...il.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

Alan wrote:
> Stick some printk calls in drivers/ata/libata-eh.c in ata_eh_suspend, or
> turn on all the ATA debug and shutdown, the code should issue a cache
> flush followed by a standbynow1 command for each disk.
> 
> Alan

I believe it runs on suspend, but we don't run that code on normal 
shutdown, do we?

Tejun Heo had a patch for sd that could (optionally) trigger a START 
STOP UNIT command to spin the disk down after synchronizing the cache 
before shutdown, but I haven't heard anything of it lately..

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