From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 8:36:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ADE437B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B694B43E31 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:35:52 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 67B48BB2C; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:35:38 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Terry Lambert , Sean Hamilton Subject: Re: Beep after shutdown Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:35:38 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002101c22d73$972ec970$f019e8d8@slugabed.org> <3D35A901.44758CE6@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3D35A901.44758CE6@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020718133538.67B48BB2C@this.is.fake.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 17 July 2002 01:27 pm, Terry Lambert wrote: | Sean Hamilton wrote: | > The fact that FreeBSD does not beep after it finishes shutting down has | > costed me dozens of hours of reformatting inconsistent filesystems, and | > probably all sorts of little bits of data loss which I'm just unaware of. | > I've tried to hack this into the kernel myself, without much luck. The | > best I got it to do was start beeping but never end, since the timer | > related stuff had already been killed off. This wound up being more | > irritating than useful. | > | > Anybody clueful want to point me in the right direction? | | I agree. | | If it could beep after powering off, that would be useful, too. | | I ...er ...uh ...what the heck are you talking about? Obviusly for older hardware that can't power itself off, so that you know when it's done before you hit the power switch. Personally I don't understand the problem since I usually can look at the screen display and even if I can't I can hear the disk spinning down but maybe his disks are too quiet. The display problem presumably arises on a setup with no console where he's shutting down via an ssh command or something. Ssh gets cut off before the machine actually finishes shutting down, of course, so it's hard to tell when it finishes. And presumably if you are in the middle of noisy machine room it's hard to hear the disk spin down. So he wants a hardware beep to tell him it's safe. | | -- Terry | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message