Comment 33 for bug 67810

I'm by no means an expert when it comes to this stuff... but by skimming through the link that Tormod posted, it appears that there's in a bug in the kernel(s) that have to do with our hardware being recognized as SCSI? (i.e /dev/sd*), which makes sense because my partitions are recognized as sda1 - sda4, whereas on my other machine that doesn't have the shutdown noise, the partitions are recognized as hda instead of sda.