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 - 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
