Hi, this is my first posting on a Linux kernel related list, and I hope that this is the correct place. If not, I'd be glad if you could point me to the right place. People on the Arch Linux forums [1] and on the systemd-devel mailing list [2] suggested to report this issue to the kernel community. I try to be as specific as I can, but unfortunately I'm not a low-level Linux expert. Since installing kernel 4.8, I have a problem with my MacBook Pro running Arch Linux on a second HD installed in a HD caddy [1]. The root and /home file systems are on this HD (/dev/sdb, see below), while /boot is on the first HD alongside macOS (/dev/sda). On shutdown/reboot, it seems that the HD (or the caddy?) gets powered off too early, which is clearly audible ('clank!'). Shortly afterwards, the following errors appears on screen (transcribed from a photo): ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x1990000 action 0xe frozenbd204ed5c ata2: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed ata2: SError: { PHYRdyChg 10B8B Dispar LinkSeq TrStaTrns } The machine shuts down or reboots a few seconds later, but I've never seen the above errors on another kernel before (kernel 4.4 through 4.7 were installed on this machine and all worked OK), so it seems to be a regression. Unfortunately, I haven't yet succeeded in gathering more verbose debug information from late shutdown. I tried to follow the guide in the systemd docs [4], but the script failed (probably, since the hd is already gone when the script tries to run). But I will happily try to provide you with more information if needed. Here's some more information about my setup: $ dmesg | grep ata2 | head [ 2.508533] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xd3484000 port 0xd3484180 irq 26 [ 2.824504] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 2.825383] ata2.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) filtered out [ 2.825543] ata2.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTS545032B9SA02, PB3AC60W, max UDMA/133 [ 2.825545] ata2.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 2.826577] ata2.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) filtered out [ 2.826745] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 $ readlink /dev/disk/by-id/*HTS545032B9SA02* | head -n1 ../../sdb $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdb 8:16 0 298,1G 0 disk ├─sdb2 8:18 0 268,1G 0 part /home └─sdb1 8:17 0 30G 0 part / sda 8:0 0 931,5G 0 disk ├─sda2 8:2 0 930,7G 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 619,9M 0 part └─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part /boot Best, Johannes [1] Here's a link to the HD caddy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0090KFOYS [2] Arch Linux forum thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1668277 [3] Systemd-devel thread: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-November/037882.html [4] https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/#index2h1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html