On 22:35 Tue 11 May , Nick Bowler wrote: > Mounting the disk also causes it to stop spinning (and it remains > stopped after unmounting it). Sorry, this was a lie. As soon as the disk spins up again after unmounting (or if it was unmounted while still spinning), it will continue to spin forever. -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- 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