From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: I don't know, if it is a bug or it is my fault. I disable my harddisk (in my case /dev/hda) of with hdparm, because I really don't need it under Linux-System. On this harddisk is only Windows-Partitions. MBR is stored in sda (SCSI-Harddisk, which I boot). If I shutdown/reboot the System, I always get a Error, and my Harddisk spin up. After spinup all Harddisk turned off (<-That is ok) and PC shut down/restart. In /etc/fstab is nothing about hda. In /etc/smartd.conf I already removed the hda line. I think, it would be great, if there is a bootparameter, which turns of some (depend on bootparameter) harddisk and Linux will leave this unused harddisk really alone. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. "hdparm -d0 /dev/hda" 2. "hdparm -Y /dev/hda" 3a. "shutdown -h now" 3b. Press Power-Off-Button (I'm using ACPI) to shutdown PC. 3c. "reboot" 3d. Press <ctrl>+<alt>+<del> to reboot. Actual Results: I receive following lines at the end of Shutdown: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} ide0: reset: success This reset result a spinup of my Harddisk (hda). This is nonsense, because after that all Harddisk will be turned off before system halts/restarts. Expected Results: Leave the disabled harddisk alone (keep it off), if there is really nothing to store/flush before turning harddisk off. Additional info:
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