Hi, I am using 2.6.23-rc9 with pata_sis. `modprobe -r sd_mod`, which I ran from initramfs, caused all my disks to spindown - sd even told me so. I recall there has been talk a while back about whether to spin down disks on shutdown or not, but I do not think it touched the removal of sd_mod, did it? So either way, can someone fill me in why the spindown is done? - 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