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 devices. (There's nothing special about USB here, if you unplugged an IDE drive you'd get the same behavior) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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