upstart

Unclean SATA drive shutdown

Bug #68614 reported by julioromano
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Bug Description

see this: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/68565

I think upstart doens't put SATA HDDs in standby mode before cutting the power.

issuing the command "man poweroff" shows:
-h, --hard-disk-standby
              Iterates /proc/ide to find all IDE disk drives and requests that
              they enter a standby mode before shutting down.

This leds me to believe it puts to standby mode only drives listed in /proc/ide (SATA drives are not listed there).

Bye,
Marco

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julioromano (romanomarco) wrote :

I' m not very good at programmin, however I found a link I think someone can leak some ideas for a piece of code which shuts down IDE/SATA/SCSI disks.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sysvinit-commits/2006-August/000704.html

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

sysvinit didn't either, and this code is pointless, the kernel shuts the drives down anyway

Changed in upstart:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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julioromano (romanomarco) wrote :

Please see the duplicate bug I created, using WindowsXP the HDD spins down correctly.
I don't know if it is upstart's fault or kernel's fault but this behaviour is very bad (a hard drive can support many clean start/stop cycles, but only few unclean ones).
Perhaps many users are affected by this probem but simply they don't notice it.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

kernel.

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Mike (mike0999) wrote :

Could this bug be causing this problem?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/125702

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