Subject: Re: A couple of issues
To: B. Alexander King III <king@cube.phy.uic.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/26/1997 09:12:54
> 	If I recall, Larry was running NetBSD from a Jaz disk?  If not, I
> apologize for the post, but...
> 
> 	There is *something* different about how "shutdown -h now" and how
> "Special:Shut Down" actually work.  I have configured my Jaz drive
> (Silverlining driver) so that none of the auto-eject features (on Shut
> Down and Restart) work.  
> 
> 	In MacOS this requires me to press the (usually disabled) eject
> button on the front of the drive after the disk has been unmounted from
> the desktop or the machine has been shut down.  
> 
> 	While "shutdown -h now" in NetBSD does indeed shut down the
> machine, it does not send the "enable button" signal to the Jaz, thus
> requiring me to reboot to MacOS and unmount the disk from there.  
> 
> 	This is really a rather trivial problem, but it is kind of
> annoying.  I suspect that it has something to do with NetBSD treating the
> Jaz as a fixed disk, but I wouldn't really know.

No, the problem's just that NetBSD isn't used to sendign the enable-eject
signal. ;-) Send in a problem report describing the issue. It should be
easy to fix (since we now support shutdown hooks, and one could be to
send the "enable eject" command to the scsi devices. :-)

Take care,

Bill