Michael Sedkowski wrote: >> Hmmm... If the problem only shows up on nx6325, it might be that ACPI is >> pulling unnecessary stunt. Please apply the attached patch and report >> when the disk spins down and up. > > Disk spins down on "Pre-shutdown prepare" and then goes up and down on > "Power down". Oh... crap, so acpi wants to sync cache on shutdown. I wonder whether it spins down the disk correctly. Does emergency unload count increase after each power down? Also, please post the result of 'dmidecode'. Thanks. -- tejun - 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