Robert Hancock wrote:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=11692262122
It looks like Tejun's patch essentially does the same thing as mine with
the addition of the control from userspace. There is one exception
though, my patch also does the stop on removal of the SCSI disk (i.e.
writing 1
Stefan Richter wrote:
Robert Hancock wrote:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=11692262122
It looks like Tejun's patch essentially does the same thing as mine with
the addition of the control from userspace. There is one exception
though, my patch also does the stop on removal of the SCSI
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:47:27 -0600
Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a patch for sd.c I've cooked up which issues a START STOP UNIT
command to stop the drive when the SCSI disk is removed or the machine
is powered down. The rationale behind this is that apparently on many
drives,
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:47 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
What we don't want to happen is for those disks to spin down during a
reboot.
It seems that this is OK with this patch.
Also, we probably don't want them to be spun down during a kexec_load,
but
I expect that's OK too.
Actually,
Here's a patch for sd.c I've cooked up which issues a START STOP UNIT
command to stop the drive when the SCSI disk is removed or the machine
is powered down. The rationale behind this is that apparently on many
drives, simply cutting power to the spinning disk forces it to do an
emergency head
