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. - 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
