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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

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