[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard drives shutdown

[Richard Elling]

Julien,
Good idea. Please file an RFE at illumos.org, thanks
 -- richard

On Apr 14, 2013, at 7:44 AM, Julien Ramseier <j.ramseier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there, 
> 
> I was playing with OI 151a7, and I noticed a strange noise
> coming from my hard drive each time the system was shut down.
> 
> After some digging, it seems that the ATA_IMMEDIATE_STANDBY
> command isn't sent before cutting off the power to the drives.
> 
> This results in the increase of the "Power-off Retract Count" SMART attribute
> of the hard drives, which are forced to do an emergency heads parking.
> 
> This problem does not occur on Linux systems.
> 
> Is it normal? 
> 
> -- 
> Julien
> 
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