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Originally Posted by narf
After thinking about what happened, my best guess is that the problem lies in the shutdown procedure. When Rockbox shuts down, it appears to write the current playback position to disk before turning off. If you are at marginal battery voltage and it tries to shut down, the battery voltage takes a big drop as the disk spins up. The spinup fails, the drive shuts down, and the system recovers. The it all starts over again. Perhaps a special low voltage shutdown procedure needs to be written that skips all disk activity and just shuts down?
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That's a great idea! That's probably exactly what's happening too after thinking about it.