On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 07:11:45AM +0000, Cherry G. Mathew wrote:
> Sleeps hard disk just before system shutdown.
> Some hardware (eg: Apple iBooks) don't do this automatically
> and the harddisk behaves as if the power plug were pulled.
> 
> Closes PR: kern/32766

This is not an acceptable implementation.  It causes the disks to spin
down when you're doing a "reboot" -- which puts considerably more wear
on the drive than an "emergency retract" ever did, and is also really,
really annoying to wait for.

Furthermore, doing an "emergency retract" was never a big deal in the
first place.  Who cares?

Please back it out at your earliest convenience.