On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 08:01, Andreas Weggel wrote: > Am Montag 31 Mai 2004 13:07 schrieb Andreas Weggel: > > hi, > > > > everytime I reboot my computer (under FC2) via ctrl+alt+del or via the > > reboot command. My hard discs are are disabled like when you halt your PC. > > > > This already happend in FC1. > > > > Does anybody know how I can prevent reboot from shutting down my hard > > discs? > > > > Andy > > I just found out that the md driver is responseable for the shutting down of > my hd drives. > > after reboot has finished the message: > > md: shutting down hard drives > hda: shut down > hdb: shut down > > appears and after that my hard discs are off... > > md seems to be static in the kernel, so how can I change that behavior? > > Andy > IIRC, the shutdown is to assure that the write caches on certain hard drives are properly flushed...without the powerdown, some drives don't handle this properly thus possibly loosing data. KAS
