<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>RE: reboot is shutting down hard drives</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> I believe its doing that to cause the hard drives to flush the on-drive write buffers. > -----Original Message----- > From: J. Scott Amort [<A HREF="mailto:jsamort@shaw.ca">mailto:jsamort@shaw.ca</A>] > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:40 PM > To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com > Subject: reboot is shutting down hard drives > > > Hi All, > > I noticed a strange thing after doing all the updates to my > FC2T3 system > (as of May 12), and running kernel 2.6.5-1.358. When I do a system > reboot, it actually powers down the hard drives (the message > comes up as > Shutting down hda, Shutting down hdb, etc.) Then you can hear the > drives spinning down as if the machine was powering off, but > it reboots > as expected. It then takes 10-20 seconds or so for the > drives to power > up again before the boot process continues. It is kind of > annoying, and > seems unnecessary. Does anyone else experience this behavior? > > Best, > Scott > > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: > <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list" TARGET="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</A> > </BODY> </HTML>