Renato S. Yamane wrote: > Hi for all, > I use Kernel 2.6.22.9 with CFS-v22 patch under Debian Etch. > > I cc Miquel because he is commented in man page of shutdown utilitie. > > When I shutdown my laptop, I see some warnings after "Will be halt now". > This message is something about "Spindown error" (this message is very > fast and I can't read all warnings, and don't found it on logs). > > I read in www.linux-ata.org/shutdown.html that is about shutdown utilitie. > > So, my questions is: > - This is dangerous? Can damage something? If your drive sounds funny on shutdown, it could. Your drive is supposed to sound the same way it sounds when you execute "hdparm -y /dev/sdX". > - How can I help to fix this warning? I believe there's already update out but you can edit some configuration file (can't remember which ATM) such that "-h" option is not passed to halt. Google should be able to tell you which file it is. -- 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