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Subject: Re: 2.6.6 turns off HDD on reboot
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
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On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 22:20, Dmitry Ivanov wrote:
> 2.6.6 turns off my HDD on reboot. After 2-3 secs
> BIOS turns it on again. All kernels before 2.6.6
> worked OK.

I think this is related to new IDE cache flush stuff.
Also, I think this behavior is not desirable and will cause HDD motors
to break faster due to the increased spin up/down cycles.