Re: [2.6.17.4] Halting process powers-off HDD twice

[Pavel Machek]

On Fri 2006-07-07 19:25:48, Patrick wrote:
> I'm using the 2.6.17.4 kernel. As of the 2.6.17 release, whenever I
> shutdown my system (using the 'halt' command... I didn't change the
> 'halt' version since the update), my hard-drive powers off, powers
> back on, powers off, and then the system is powered down. Usually (<=
> 2.6.16), the hard-drive would be turned off once, and then the system
> powered off.
> 
> The hard-drive this problem is occuring on is an IDE Maxtor 6B300R0
> hard drive. My .config is attached. Please CC me, as I'm not
> subscribed to the list.

Can you add WARN_ON(1) to the spindown code and get tracebacks to
see who is causing this?
								Pavel
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