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LiquidRain
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 Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject: Idle HDDs Spin Up on Shutdown, PC Doesn't Power Off |
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Hello all!
Problem 1: I have 3 hard drives in my system. Two are backup drives I use seldomly and in my local.start I execute "hdparm -Y /dev/hdx" to put them to sleep. When I go to shutdown my PC though, at "Remounting remaining filesystems as read only..." it spins up the hard drives only to have them shutdown when I power off the system. I'd rather avoid the spin up if I can, especially since these drives are old and one is very unresponsive to the wake-up call, taking 10-15 seconds before it spins up, slowing down the shutdown and putting unnecessary wear on the drive.
I'm not sure which configuration files you need to see to see, so for starters I'm going to post my fstab. My hardware is in my sig, the drives in question that I want to keep idle during shutdown sit on the Silicon Image PCI IDE controller.
| Code: | /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs auto,noatime,notail 0 2
/dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdg1 /mnt/wd20gb reiserfs noauto,noatime 0 0
/dev/hdh1 /mnt/q10gb reiserfs noauto,noatime 0 0
/dev/hde4 /mnt/zip1 vfat noauto,noatime 0 0
/dev/hdf4 /mnt/zip2 vfat noauto,noatime 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 |
The drives that sit idle are /dev/hdg and /dev/hdh.
Problem 2: My system does not actually power off on shutdown. I noticed this today when I had a power outage that exhausted my UPS. Linux shutdown thanks to apcupsd, but the system did not power off, continually draining power off the UPS which eventually starved the UPS completely, robbing my other devices of power. What could possibly cause the system to not power off at shutdown? It says "Power off." on screen as the last thing, but the system remains on. I have a sneaking suspicion this is an ACPI feature I have forgotten to enable in my kernel config.
I've searched the forums and the Gentoo Wiki and have not found a solution to either of these problems. Thanks for help in advance. |
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LiquidRain
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Sorry to bump, but nobody has any ideas?
If this is a noob question, could somebody let me know and I'll try searching more? |
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