25 Nov
2006
25 Nov
'06
11:34
* Mark 27e3kk302@sneakemail.com [20061122 04:15]:
One user noticed that older IDE drives (CD, HDD) make noise, depending on age, case vibrations. His USB drive is very quiet. He boots grml from that.
Can he boot from USB without powering IDE drives? Grml has an orderly IDE power-off procedure at shutdown. You hear the IDE hard drives click off one by one. The question is best method to invoke the commands at boot time.
Of course he can always unplug the power cables manually :-) But customers don't like that. :-) Software control is better anyway.
Hm, what you want to get is "do not touch the ide drives at all"? Try booting with kernel parameters
ide1=noprobe ide2=noprobe ide3=noprobe ide4=noprobe
then.
regards, -mika-
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