From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Improper disk shutdown with 2.6.22.6? Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:39:54 +0900 Message-ID: <46FAFBDA.4080509@gmail.com> References: <20070919093306.GA2359@robos.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.190]:19520 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751322AbXI0EYA (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:24:00 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so2202895rvb for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:23:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070919093306.GA2359@robos.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Jeff Garzik [cc'ing Henrique and Jeff] Robert wrote: > Hello, > > When shutting down this system running Linux 2.6.22.6, I get a warning about > the possibility that the disks are not properly shut down. When the power is > turned off, it sounds like the disks aren't spun down (but I may be mistaken > on that point). > > http://linux-ata.org/shutdown.html claims that kernels newer than 2.6.21 will > always spin down the disks, but is this really the case? > The manage_start_stop files exist. > > Tell me if you'd like more detailed information about configuration and > hardware. You're on debian, right? You need to update your shutdown utilities. Henrique, what information should we put into the faq page to properly direct debian users to needed updates? Thanks. -- tejun