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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:18:10 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: scsi drives left locked by shutdown
Message-ID:  <326526E2.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
References:  <199610161627.CAA25066@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Bruce

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..



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