Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in

[Alan Cox]

> Second, why do we need to put the disks on standby before halting? I ask because putting
> the disks on standby puts my hard drives into a coma!! When I power up after a halt, 

To make sure they have written back their caches, put themselves into
happy safe sleeping mode and are quiet.

> I have
> to go into the BIOS and force auto-detect to wake them back up. I've removed the "standby"
> code and things seem to be functioning normally. I have an Epox 8K7A motherboard with two
> Maxtor Hard drives (model 5T040H4).
> 

Congratulations your BIOS sucks 8)