Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

[Alexander Best]

On Tue Nov 16 10, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:03:09 +0000
> Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > so how about olivers patch? it will only apply to ata devices so it's
> > garanteed not to break any other CAM devices (i'm thinking about the
> > aac controller issue). you could revert your previous shutdown work
> > and plug olivers patch into CAM. you might want to replace the
> > combination of flush/standby immediate with sleep.
> 
> One problem with the code that's been committed is that the shutdown
> event handler doesn't get run during a suspend operation so an
> emergency unload still gets done when running "acpiconf -s3".

unfortunately i don't think a can help you on that one. acpi never worked for
me! even 'acpiconf -s1' will hopelessly crash my system. :(

cheers.
alex

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> Bruce Cran

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