Re: Suspend support for IDE

[Reid Hekman]

On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 18:52, Barry K. Nathan wrote: 
> > > Why should I tell the drive to power down? It is going to loose its
> > > power, anyway (I believe in both S3 and S4).
> > 
> > So it can shut itself down nicely and do any housework it wants to do
> > (like flushing the cache if the cache flush command isnt supported.. its
> >  optional in older ATA standards)
> 
> Or, in the case of newer IBM TravelStars, so that the drive can unload
> its head properly instead of having to do an uncontrolled emergency unload
> that shortens the drive's life and makes an awful screeching noise.

Eeep. Have we just set the wayback machine for 15 years ago? I don't
remember seeing PARK.COM in /sbin recently. 

Sorry, couldn't resist. 
Reid 

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