On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 gwr@NetBSD.ORG wrote:

> > From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:09:56 -0700
> [...]
> >  > > I think Gordon's "spin down" idea is good, too... once the sync operation
> >  > > is complete, maybe spinning down the disk isn't such a bad idea, too...
> >  > 
> >  > Not all drives 'listen' to the spindown command.
> > 
> > ...and Curt's "man, that'd take a long time to reboot" comment, and the
> > other comment about how some won't spin up again until a power cycle
> > made me think it wasn't such a good idea :-)
> 
> It might not have been clear from my short suggestion, but
> I did not mean to suggest a SCSI STOP in any circumstance
> OTHER than "we are about to power off."  In that case, any

Or halt -p was used, but the box cannot do soft powerpown, yet it is
probably desirable for the disks to spin down if possible.

> reboot or subsequent spin-up issues are irrelevant.
>
> Anyway, sounds like SYNCHRONIZE CACHE is sufficient, and
> would be safe to do at every shutdown (not just power-off).


-- 
Soren