Hello, On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 12:03:02PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > > That's because detaching the driver is handled basically as controller > > hot unplug. By the time SCSI is noticing the SCSI devices are going > > away, the corresponding ATA devices are already away. It's kinda > > natural to implement that way. Is this an actual problem? > > Yes. The HDD doesn't spin down. I'm removing the device because I want > some power savings, so I would expect to spin down the disk. Detach the hdds first then. You're essentially yanking out the controller. The high level driver naturally loses control of the device before it can do anything about it. Thanks. -- 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
