From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161206AbWGIWk3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:40:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161207AbWGIWk3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:40:29 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:31691 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161206AbWGIWk2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:40:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:35:38 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Patrick Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.17.4] Halting process powers-off HDD twice Message-ID: <20060709223538.GA1807@elf.ucw.cz> References: <9834b6670607071625w7bbf7721i26b90d23e94bac75@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9834b6670607071625w7bbf7721i26b90d23e94bac75@mail.gmail.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html