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Subject: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off
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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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