Alexander Best <[email protected]> wrote: > i believe the sound you hear is due to the emergency unload sequence. > i'm not 100% sure, but i think after applying the patch the sound > is gone. i recently replaced my old IDE hdd (which made a very loud > "click!" during shutdown) with a new SATA hdd. the new one is very > quiet and so it's not that easy to recognise any changes in the spin > down procedure.
There are hard disk drives that (still) have a reasonable auto-park feature and don't require a special command. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
