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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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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

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