Re: [Ilugc] HDD Power and Status

2009-07-31 Thread Krishna
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bharathi Subramanian < sbhara...@midascomm.com> wrote: > On 12:44pm, Krishna wrote: > > > I think if the harddisk spin down features are used before powering it > off > > and again spin it up during power on and then applications can get > access. > > may be you ca

Re: [Ilugc] HDD Power and Status

2009-07-31 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
On 12:44pm, Krishna wrote: > I think if the harddisk spin down features are used before powering it off > and again spin it up during power on and then applications can get access. > may be you can get some better result. I am not sure of this, but this is Spin Down != Power Off. Bcoz HDD is stil

Re: [Ilugc] HDD Power and Status

2009-07-31 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Bharathi Subramanian < sbhara...@midascomm.com> wrote: > In the problem condition also, RAM hold all the HDD status. I thought, > system should come back to normal status. My Q is what are the HDD > specific info/status is stored during the hibernate?? > I am no e

Re: [Ilugc] HDD Power and Status

2009-07-31 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
On 4:04pm, Senthil Anand wrote: > During Hibernate, the entire content of RAM is dumped on the swap space. > On the next boot, the kernel just loads the memory contents from swap. > So you have all the applications and files just as they were previously. In the problem condition also, RAM hold

Re: [Ilugc] HDD Power and Status

2009-07-31 Thread Krishna
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Bharathi Subramanian < sbhara...@midascomm.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently to simulate HW issue, in a properly running (Linux) system, > we removed the power cable and reconnected after ~1min. During the HDD > power off and after the power on condition, whateve

Re: [Ilugc] HDD Power and Status

2009-07-31 Thread Senthil Anand
On 7/31/2009 11:00, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: after HDD power reconnected". And during hibernate, How the appl are able resume back to normal operation? During Hibernate, the entire content of RAM is dumped on the swap space. On the next boot, the kernel just loads the memory contents from