[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug 348172 (sata spindown problems) still existing?

[Henning Sprang]

Hi,
Does really nobody on this list has an idea what it could mean, that I 
still get such error messages, even if the bug is said to be fixed in 
sysvinit since a very long time (see below)?

I researched a bit further, and found that info:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/disk-might-not-be-spun-down-properly.-update-shutdown-utility-583307/#

So the problem seems not to be bound to the fact that I use that newer 
kernel in Etch.

The solution proposed here, namely removing the "-h" option, seems not 
clear to me - removing it seems, when reading the man pages of halt to 
force exactly the contrary, _not_ spinning down disks before halting.

It looks like all informations that are available on the net seem not 
very clear.

Thanks in advance for any hints, especially if and how I risk destroying 
my hard disk, and how I can prevent that.

Henning


Henning Sprang wrote:
> I'm using Etch, and have a self-backported Kernel 2.6.24-4, running 
> fine. But I still get messages about my sata disk not being properly 
> spinned down when shutting down/hibernating.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348172
> 
> Reads like this bug is fixed a long time ago. (fixed since
> 2.86.ds1-16, Etch has  2.86.ds1-38)
> 
> So, is the warning message I still get bogus and can be ignored, or is 
> it the case that this fix, does not work with newer Kernels anymore?