FreeBSD 5.3 fails to shutdown properly

[Loren M. Lang]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:33:51PM +0530, Subhro wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:23:52 -0800, Loren M. Lang <lorenl at alzatex.com> wrote:
> > FreeBSD fails to sync buffers on shutdown and gives up requiring and
> > fsck on reboot everytime.  It first syncs vnodes which hit 0 after a
> > short time, then while syncing buffers the count starts at 7 and stays
> > there til it gives up trying to sync them.  When I first go into single
> > user mode, then umount all fs by hand I can run reboot and it will
> > shutdown properly.  Is there a way to increase the delay on shutdown or
> > some other way to fix this problem?  I'm using a clean install of FreeBSD 5.3.
> 
> Could you tell us about the arrangement of drives on your busses? Also
> what type of data conductor are you using?

I have a pure IDE system at the moment.

Primary Master is a 120G Western Digital HD with UltraDMA 100, Primary
Slave is a 250G WD HD w/ UDMA 100.  On my Seconary bus is a Samsung
DVD-ROM with UDMA 33 as the master, and the slave is a 4 disc NEC CD changer.

All cables are standard 40 pin ribbon cables.

Side question, how do cd changers work in FBSD?

> 
> Regards
> S.
> 
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