Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off.

[Andrew Morton]

Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:13, John Bradford wrote:
> > > This spins down the disk(s) when you're just doing do a reboot.  That's
> > > fairly irritating and could affect reboot times if one has many disks.
> > 
> > I think it is an attempt to force some broken drives to flush their
> > cache, but I wonder whether it will simply move the problem from one
> > set of broken drives to another :-).
> 
> Yes, they were trying to get caches flushed. If this attempt is
> misguided, that's fine. Is there a better way?

A couple of thoughts come to mind:

a) Don't do it if the user typed reboot - only do it if we're powering down.

b) Try to do a cache flush instead.  If that fails (do we know?) then
   power down the disk instead.

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