Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 17:16:31 -0700 From: Benjamin Keating <motionsiren@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Properly umounting a USB HDD Message-ID: <781e2bc005050317162850f7ec@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey all, I've noticed that a 'umount /mnt/portable' properly umounts the drive like it should, but when I hold the drive in my hand and give it a very gentle horizontal spin with my wrist, the reading head / platter.. something, sounds loose, as if the arm wasn't properly docked. Is there any command in BSD that will allow me to properly shutdown a portable disk? System disks don't have this sound at all but I'm not sure what commands do it. Maybe it's a APIC/APM thing? That stuff is greek to me. Thanks!
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