Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:27:33 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alexbestms@wwu.de Subject: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off Message-ID: <201001271327.o0RDRXBT045028@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <permail-2010012708514080e26a0b0000374a-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
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Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de> wrote: > i believe the sound you hear is due to the emergency unload sequence. > i'm not 100% sure, but i think after applying the patch the sound > is gone. i recently replaced my old IDE hdd (which made a very loud > "click!" during shutdown) with a new SATA hdd. the new one is very > quiet and so it's not that easy to recognise any changes in the spin > down procedure. There are hard disk drives that (still) have a reasonable auto-park feature and don't require a special command. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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