From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932409AbXDMTd4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:33:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932431AbXDMTd4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:33:56 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:14232 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932409AbXDMTdz (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:33:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=ZhXvi7OfvIaHZjqxgKlaIoy4zsoBq4MgHefDZm3zjG7EhJFnwe5EnmDKA28/mwL29ow8j0Zs9OYWEnbjQcYpaYylweAnjt4vE0vqKmGq2+wZyQZ0/CTlCXLUNk4dipPVBDR9JXU0slAH0lGb8/kV7h/JWXGRlwBYJ4HbaIMw49Y= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Chuck Ebbert Subject: Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:42:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org References: <461D4E2C.6000704@redhat.com> <461D5C24.9080506@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <461D5C24.9080506@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704132142.29582.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 12 April 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Apr 11 2007 17:35, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>> On Apr 11 2007 17:07, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >>>> When I reboot my notebook, it powers off and powers back on. > >>>> On poweroff a loud snapping noise seems to be coming from the > >>>> hard drive. Today I noticed there is no "shutdown: hda" on > >>>> the console when I reboot. Whne I do a normal poweroff the > >>>> message is displayed and there is no noise. Should the IDE > >>>> code be changed so it always shuts down the drive? > >>> What sort of notebook? What sort of harddisk? > >> Compaq Presario V2000 series, with a new Seagate ST9120821A > >> 120GB 5400RPM drive. > > > > I specifically hoped you might have a TOSHIBA MK2003GAH, > > which does a hard unload when left idle for too long. > > > > Only on reboots huh? > > > > What happens if you reboot another OS, freebsd f.ex.? (You can try that off > > CD1) > > Now we're getting somewhere. There is some other OS on here because > it's required for doing BIOS updates. I booted it and shut down. > The power cycle count increased but the power off retract count did not. > > The counts are: > > power cycle ... 111 > power off retract ... 92 > > The difference is now 19; it was 18 before. Is the noise present if you reboot the other OS? Does it result in Power-Off_Retract count increase? Bart