29 Nov
2006
29 Nov
'06
06:46
The best solution we found was "hdparm -Y /dev/hdX" (and /dev/cdrom). It works on hard disks if not all CD-ROMs.
P.S. Bug in grml 0.8-1
Shutdown procedure hangs at swapoff step when IDE drives are off. I did "swapoff -a" prior to "hdparm -Y ..." so should be problems.
The new 0.9rc1 grml has swap off by default (hooray!) so behavior may be different, but someone should test with 0/9rc1. Just do hdparm -Y /dev/hdX on all hard drives, "shutdown -h 0". Watch the output.
Mark