[ltp] [PATCH] 2.6.17: Unload disks heads before powering down

[Shem Multinymous]

Hi Henrique,

On 9/22/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:

> They command the HDs to unload heads before the system is shutdown

On my box with ata_piix, the kernel is *spinning down* the disks
during shutddown. Tested with vanilla 2.6.18 and 2.6.17.4+suspend2.
Annoyingly, it spins down disks also on reboot and in the first phase
of the suspend2 hibernation.

Any idea where that comes from, and how it relates to the SuSE head
unload patch?

  Shem