On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Mark Lord wrote:
> 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 ?
It is well possible that the CPU is able to survive a few
additional milliseconds on thin air after main power is out.
Nicolas
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