Re: [PATCH 1/2] ide: Stop disks on reboot for laptop which cuts power

[Tejun Heo]

Bruno PrÃmont wrote:
> My laptop (Acer Travelmate 660) always cuts the power when rebooting
> which causes the disk to emergency-park it's head.
> 
> Add a dmi check to stop disk as for shutdown on this laptop.

Hmm... yeah, I also noticed this behavior on several machines I have
here.  Most were beta BIOSen.

Maybe it's worth to shutdown drives on reboot on all machines?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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