Comment 7 for bug 114683

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 114683] Re: New libata/scsi spindown functionality in 2.6.22 requires changes in userland shutdown(8)

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 20:38 +0000, Tormod Volden wrote:

> My Compaq (with "via" chipset) made this disk noise early in Feisty when
> it was using ata/pata (and the disk was /dev/sda). Before and after it
> is quiet, using ide/pci/via82cxxx.ko (on /dev/hda). My Acer also makes
> this noise, it's using libata/ata_piix (on /dev/sda). But maybe I mix up
> the nomenclature. The workaround that worked for most (all?) people was
> echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/0\:0\:0\:0/stop_on_shutdown.
>
And the kernel patch being discussed here will remove the need for that.

So all is shiny and happy.

Scott
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