Robert Hancock wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Yeah, that seems to be what's going on. I don't think we have any other >> choice than blacklisting those notebooks. This is a mess. How does the >> other OS cope with this? > > Quite possible that it gets a double spindown with these laptop/drive > combinations as well. I don't think it's particularly harmful as long as > there's no emergency unload.. I heard that spinning a harddrive back up while the platter is still spinning from the previous spindown can have pretty bad affect on the harddisk. This is from a Samsung HDD service guy and I'm not sure how credible it is at all. 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