Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

[Mark Felder]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:37:00 -0600, Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> 1) switching to a differnt tty worked, but i couldn't log in (input was  
> simply
>    ignored)

I don't mean to derail this thread if this is completely unrelated, but  
we've been having issues with FreeBSD 8.0 and 8.1 dying on our ESX 4.0  
cluster. The usual result is that the machine stops responding to all  
network activity and at the console you can switch ttys but it doesn't  
accept any input. We can't find any absolute hard evidence yet, but we  
think it might have to do with the preferred path changing to the SAN and  
FreeBSD freaking out. Could this possibly be boiling down to the same core  
issue?


Regards,


Mark