On 07/09/2012 09:51 PM, Robert Trace wrote: > > Huh.. I just retested this and I'm seeing really random behavior. Ok, with a refined test I've been able to reliably reproduce this and I bisected it back to commit 85ef06d1d252f6a2e73b678591ab71caad4667bb in Linus' tree (introduced between 3.0 and 3.1): commit 85ef06d1d252f6a2e73b678591ab71caad4667bb Author: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jul 1 16:17:47 2011 +0200 block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2) Prior to the above commit, sleeping disks will spin up as a result of I/O sent to them. With the above commit, they don't spin up and immediately return an I/O failure. That's all the further I've gotten so far. I'll be happy to test any patches or suggestions. -- Rob -- 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