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) 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
