Tejun Heo wrote:
1. shutdown(8) issues SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE followed by STANDBY_NOW 2. kernel shutdown starts 3. libata shutdown issues SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4. power goes off
Okay, after some experimentatino, it's the STANDBY_NOW that is causing the Power-Off_Retract_Count to increment on my machine. Tell me again why we think we need to issue that command ? Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html