Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Francesco Pretto wrote:
> Ubuntu [1] ang Gentoo [2] bugs opened. Sent a mail to Miquel van
> Smoorenburg, dev  of sysvinit.

For all Debian sysvinit issues, please send email to
pkg-sysvinit-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org (added to CC).

For the Debian sysvinit crew: Guys, have a look at
http://linux-ata.org/shutdown.html.  We need to act on it, and also file a
bug on all of our current kernels (poweroff causes minor but accumulating-
over-time damage to all hardware under control of libata).  This is really
something we should be trying to fix on our 2.6.18 kernels and stable
sysvinit.

> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/114683
> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178559

Tejun, am I right to assume that any servers with self-contained SCSI disks
(i.e. that are not plugged into externally powered drive enclosures, etc)
also get the emergency head unloads when they are powered off?

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh