Re: Hard drive shutdown problem with FC2

[Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml sympatico ca>]

 On Sun, 23 May 2004 23:39:37 +0100
"Rich Fearn" <rich fearn btopenworld com> wrote:


> Everything boots fine. The system works perfectly. However, when I reboot
> the machine, Fedora seems to be shutting down the hard drives in such a way
> as to make the IDE detection on the next next boot of the machine very slow.

This is a feature of the Linux kernel.   The drivers are shut down so 
that all data is flushed to disk before power is removed from the drive.   
Unfortunately, the kernel doesn't distinguish between shutting down 
and rebooting.    The mainline kernel has patches to handle the reboot 
case differently and will appear in Fedora at some point.  Be patient.  :o)

Cheers,
Sean