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? Is it as loud as `hdparm -y /dev/hdX"? Try `smartctl -d ata -a /dev/hdX | grep -i unload` too. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
