Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:49:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: scsi drives left locked by shutdown Message-ID: <199610161849.LAA03445@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <326526E2.167EB0E7@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 16, 96 11:18:10 am
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> > I use a zip drive for "/" and swap on a test machine. Shutdown doesn't > > close the swap device, so scsi_prevent() isn't called to unlock the drive, > > so a hard reset is required to eject disks. > > maybe a use for the at_shutdown() call? > At one stage in the Berkeley BSD 4.4 course there was discussion > of adding "shutdown" entries to cdevsw entries.. I second the motion of adding "detach" routines... it's very necessary for rundown on pluggable hardware (which, by definition, is also unpluggable). The driver needs to be able to "rundown" at any time. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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