On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:01:37PM +0900, Takayoshi Kochi wrote:

> Thanks for testing.  My concern is that I'm not sure whether
> it's generic enough for all ATA/IDE drives.  The document which
> the original author points out in the PR is IBM drives' manual.
> My laptop uses an IBM drive (IC25N040ATCS04-0) and it's ok.

Mine is reported as Model: IC25N040ATCS04-0, Rev: CA4OA71A
So it looks the same ;)

> In my case, the sound of harddrive shutdown become differnt
> after applying the patch.

Confirmed. Less noise, and it looks like the
shutdown is more "calm". Before the patch,
it was like it was just removed power and
spinned down but more slowly :/

-- 
Gilbert Fernandes