RE: Corruption Stats (fwd)

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:50:58 +0100 (BST)


On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Jon Evans wrote:

> Windows 98, on shutdown, sends the "power off" command to the hard drives.
> I mean not just if your box has control of the power supply. I hear my hard
> drives click off as the "It is now safe to switch off your computer" screen
> appears, and my PC has a "manual" power switch.

Why not put hdparm -Y in the shutdown script?
That would work for IDE drives at least.

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