Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> So, what happens if we just don't ever spin them down from the kernel? >> Presumably they still spin-down normally (HP or otherwise) when the BIOS >> actually cuts the power at the end of all of this? >> >> Just curious.. > > Well, I'll let Tejun answer that. :-) The BIOSen on the affected HP ones will spin the drives down during power off or hibernation, so there won't be any problem (that's what the patch does, BTW). For all other machines, the drive will do emergency head unload which usually sounds a bit differently and shortens the lifespan of the drive. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
