Nicolas Pitre wrote: ..
FWIW, I also see that partial "exception Emask"message whenever power to the device is abruptly removed.
.. Well, yes, you should see it. That's what it is telling us ("power lost"). It's just kind of odd (but thus far harmless) to also see it at shutdown. This indicates that the drive is being powered off before the CPU is powered off -- perhaps a peculiarity of the platform ? Cheers -- 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