Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems.

[Daniel Pittman]

On 24 May 2004, Tom Vier wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 06:25:51PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I would think that if the drive didn't properly flush cache on
>> shutdown that it might cause corruption. Feel free to tell me no
>> drive would bahave like that ;-)
>
> why not add a one or two second delay before? i doubt any drive holds
> its writeback that long.

This was the solution adopted by IBM, for their Thinkpad laptop line, in
a BIOS update last year.  My system now delays two seconds before
turning off, with the stated purpose "avoiding disk corruption"...

        Daniel

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