On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 09:35:00PM +0000, juan@xtrarom.org wrote:
> >Number:         37508
> >Category:       kern
> >Synopsis:       After jmcneill-pm, disks are switched to standby before rebooting
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       high
> >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 09 21:35:00 +0000 2007
> >Originator:     juan@xtrarom.org
> >Release:        NetBSD 4.99.41
> >Organization:
> Juan Romero Pardines	- The NetBSD Project
> http://plog.xtrarom.org	- NetBSD/pkgsrc news in Spanish
> >Environment:
> System: NetBSD sasha 4.99.41 NetBSD 4.99.41 (Nocturno-nodbg) #70: Sun Dec 9 22:24:17 CET 2007 juan@sasha:/home/juan/build/i386/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/Nocturno-nodbg i386
> Architecture: i386
> Machine: i386
> >Description:
> 
> 	After the jmcneill-pm branch has been merged in, issuing a reboot
> 	call will switch the IDE disks to standby/sleep mode before the system
> 	is rebooted... that's unacceptable for me because that means a longer
> 	time in the BIOS that is waiting for disk initialization.

That's also inacceptable because this means shortened life for the
disks. They have a limited start/stop cycle count, and for some of them
(the older ones, or some of the ones designed for 24x7 usage) it isn't that
high. 

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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