From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 23:25:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6AD1065670; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:25:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucec@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1698FC0C; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAUNPFUc057546; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:25:15 GMT (envelope-from brucec@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from brucec@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id oAUNPFOo057542; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:25:15 GMT (envelope-from brucec) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:25:15 GMT Message-Id: <201011302325.oAUNPFOo057542@freefall.freebsd.org> To: llgxela@gmail.com, brucec@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, brucec@FreeBSD.org From: brucec@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/152720: Weird Hard Disk clicking noise on system shutdown X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:25:15 -0000 Synopsis: Weird Hard Disk clicking noise on system shutdown State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: brucec State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 30 23:20:06 UTC 2010 State-Changed-Why: The clicking sound is an Emegency Unload being done as the drive loses power. This is fixed in stable/7 and stable/8 by spinning the disks down during shutdown if the cam subsystem is being used (i.e. ATA_CAM or ahci(4)). It's unlikely that the ata(4) driver will get the same fix since it's being deprecated in favour of ATA_CAM and ahci(4), and it has issues with power management. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->brucec Responsible-Changed-By: brucec Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Nov 30 23:20:06 UTC 2010 Responsible-Changed-Why: Track. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152720