The following reply was made to PR kern/37508; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/37508: After jmcneill-pm, disks are switched to standby before rebooting
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:23:59 +0100

 On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 09:35:00PM +0000, juan@xtrarom.org wrote:
 > >Number:         37508
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       After jmcneill-pm, disks are switched to standby before rebooting
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       high
 > >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 09 21:35:00 +0000 2007
 > >Originator:     juan@xtrarom.org
 > >Release:        NetBSD 4.99.41
 > >Organization:
 > Juan Romero Pardines	- The NetBSD Project
 > http://plog.xtrarom.org	- NetBSD/pkgsrc news in Spanish
 > >Environment:
 > System: NetBSD sasha 4.99.41 NetBSD 4.99.41 (Nocturno-nodbg) #70: Sun Dec 9 22:24:17 CET 2007 juan@sasha:/home/juan/build/i386/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/Nocturno-nodbg i386
 > Architecture: i386
 > Machine: i386
 > >Description:
 > 
 > 	After the jmcneill-pm branch has been merged in, issuing a reboot
 > 	call will switch the IDE disks to standby/sleep mode before the system
 > 	is rebooted... that's unacceptable for me because that means a longer
 > 	time in the BIOS that is waiting for disk initialization.
 
 That's also inacceptable because this means shortened life for the
 disks. They have a limited start/stop cycle count, and for some of them
 (the older ones, or some of the ones designed for 24x7 usage) it isn't that
 high. 
 
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 Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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