On 4/18/07, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: > > Mark Lord wrote: > >> > >> With the patch applied, I don't see *any* new activity in those > >> S.M.A.R.T. > >> attributes over multiple hibernates (Linux "suspend-to-disk"). > > > > Scratch that -- operator failure. ;) > > The patch makes no difference over hibernates in the SMART logs. > > > > It's still logging extra Power-Off_Retract_Count pegs, > > which it DID NOT USED TO DO not so long ago. > > > > Just to add to the fun, my problems are happening with the "old" > IDE drivers... The issue you are experiencing results in the same problem (disk doing power off retract) but it has a totally different root cause - your notebook loses power on reboot. It is actually a hardware problem and as you have reported the same problem is present when using "the other" OS. I think that the issue needs to be fixed (by detecting affected notebook(s) using DMI?) in Linux PM handling and not in IDE subsystem because: * there may be some other hardware devices affected by the power loss (== they require shutdown sequence) * the same problem will bite if somebody decides to use libata (FC7?) Bart
OpenSUSE 10.3 is still in Alpha stage (at least a few months away from release), but they too have switched to libata by default. (You can override by adding a boot param). Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century - 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
