harddisk noisy at reboot

nexus7 · 2008-06-07 18:03:42

hi folks!

Once and forever I would like to get rid of a harddisk problem that has been acute since about kernel .21 and continues after installing a fresh system: on shutdown the hdd is doing this 'soft like cotton batting' and one hears nothing, while on reboot it switches off very roughly which sounds like a buzz saw. Hence that once new hdd probably didn't last very long, I guess, say 1-1 1/2 years, and then crashed. After about nine months now I took another hdd (which is not new) lately -- same thing (edit: well, i haven't crashed yet)!
Some data:

# sdparm -a /dev/sda
    /dev/sda: ATA       SAMSUNG MP0603H   UD10
Read write error recovery mode page:
  AWRE        1
  ARRE        0
  TB          0
  RC          0
  EER         0
  PER         0
  DTE         0
  DCR         0
  RRC         0
  COR_S       0
  HOC         0
  DSOC        0
  WRC         0
  RTL         0
Caching (SBC) mode page:
  IC          0
  ABPF        0
  CAP         0
  DISC        0
  SIZE        0
  WCE         1
  MF          0
  RCD         0
  DRRP        0
  WRP         0
  DPTL        0
  MIPF        0
  MAPF        0
  MAPFC       0
  FSW         0
  LBCSS       0
  DRA         0
  NV_DIS      0
  NCS         0
  CSS         0
Control mode page:
  TST         0
  TMF_ONLY    0
  D_SENSE     0
  GLTSD       1
  RLEC        0
  QAM         0
  QERR        0
  RAC         0
  UA_INTLCK   0
  SWP         0
  ATO         0
  TAS         0
  AUTOLOAD    0
  BTP        -1
  ESTCT      30

# lsmod
...
ide_pci_generic         4228  0 [permanent]
piix                    6920  0 [permanent]
ide_core              103584  2 ide_pci_generic,piix
ata_piix               17668  4 
libata                141840  1 ata_piix
scsi_mod               92204  5 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
dock                    7952  2 bay,libata

Finally I entered this script (I used before kernel .22 but worked only for shutting down) into /etc/rc.local.shutdown

#!/bin/sh
for disk in `ls /sys/class/scsi_disk/`; do
        echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/${disk}/stop_on_shutdown
done

without any effect, except this error on shutting down

/etc/rc.local/shutdown, line 3: /sys/class/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/stop_on_shutdown: no such file or directory
/etc/rc.local/shutdown, line 3: /sys/class/scsi_disk/2:0:0:0/stop_on_shutdown: no such file or directory

But I think this script is not from importance here anyway -- all should be done by the hook autodetect included in mkinitcpio.conf.

Hope you can help me! Tell me if you need more output.

thx

Last edited by nexus7 (2008-06-07 23:24:20)

nexus7 · 2008-06-07 23:28:55

"error on shutting down" more specified (see above)

edit:// ...while the address 0:0:0:0 is the hdd and 2:0:0:0 is the dvd-rom, I guess

Last edited by nexus7 (2008-06-08 15:36:48)

nexus7 · 2008-06-09 20:14:10

bump! -- no one really?!

Well, I could strictly try avoid direct rebooting for the sake of seemingly any built in hdd...
but I'd also like to know more about the problem and how it could be solved~

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#1 2008-06-07 18:03:42

harddisk noisy at reboot

#2 2008-06-07 23:28:55

Re: harddisk noisy at reboot

#3 2008-06-09 20:14:10

Re: harddisk noisy at reboot

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