Hello Mark, Martin forwarded your mail to me as I'm seeing the same/similar issue on my QNAP TS-109 running arm 2.6.26-rc6 (old ABI). On Friday 13 June 2008, Mark Lord wrote: > Mmm.. I don't know how this can happen, even if it does happen. > Unless perhaps the plaform code doesn't do a (driver).remove() call, > which is where we disable the interrupt you see above. > > This *is* a "platform" (non-PCI) device, right? With your debug patch included, I get on boot: console [ttyS0] enabled serial8250.0: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xf1012100 (irq = 4) is a 16550A brd: module loaded Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods mv_platform_probe(c02ec910) sata_mv sata_mv.0: version 1.24 sata_mv sata_mv.0: slots 32 ports 2 scsi0 : sata_mv scsi1 : sata_mv ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 29 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 29 ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-7: HDT722516DLA380, V43OA91A, max UDMA/133 ata1.00: 321672960 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA HDT722516DLA380 V43O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 321672960 512-byte hardware sectors (164697 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 321672960 512-byte hardware sectors (164697 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 Which has your 'mv_platform_probe(c02ec910)' > That being the case, can you stick a printk() into mv_platform_remove() > so we can see whether or not it gets called before "power down" ? But on poweroff: Will now halt. sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk Power down. qnap_ts209_power_off: triggering power-off... ata1: exception Emask 0� So no sign of anything getting called here. Cheers, FJP -- 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