On Monday 19 January 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > > Some notebooks from HP have the problem that their BIOSes attempt to > spin down hard drives before entering ACPI system states S4 and S5. > This leads to a yo-yo effect during system power-off shutdown and the > last phase of hibernation when the disk is first spun down by the > kernel and then almost immediately turned on and off by the BIOS. > This, in turn, may result in shortening the disk's life times. > > To prevent this from happening we can blacklist the affected systems > using DMI information. > > Blacklist HP 2510p that uses the ata_piix driver. > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> As I have a system that is affected by this and as I have been a happy user of this patch for 4 months or so, it may make sense to add my Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> Same goes indirectly for the rest of the series, except for patch 5. -- 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
