Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:39:46 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot? Message-ID: <200707180839.50113.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200707181142.27240.idiotbg@gmail.com> References: <200707181142.27240.idiotbg@gmail.com>
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--nextPart2519369.ujUClLtp6T Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Momchil Ivanov wrote: > Hi, > > I am running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #11: Sat Jul 14 16:27:12 CEST 2007 > and accidently unplugged the USB hub to which my external hdd > together with a mouse were connected and this caused my machine to > freeze for some seconds and then reboot. At that moment the hdd was > mounted and I was playing music out of it. > After that I tried to reproduce it :) so just plugged only the hdd > directly, mounted it and started playing music files from it. When > I unplugged the USB cable the same thing happened: short freeze, > and then reboot. Is this expected behaviour? And is there some way > to avoid the freeze and reboot? > > Thanks. Yes, it's expected behavior. The workaround is to not unplug mounted=20 devices. (There's nothing special about USB here, if you unplugged an=20 IDE drive you'd get the same behavior) =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel --nextPart2519369.ujUClLtp6T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGnhgmJvkB8SevrssRAnUOAKCUUDUZbgXIydtuibZdYmXOIXLbPgCfS1Bd p9r+9dVhdqbkV4HqI1s5sm8= =Xt8W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2519369.ujUClLtp6T--
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