shutdown on BSD and Linux

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Thu, September 7, 2006 6:28 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

> BTW - the poweroff on my laptop, with Dragonfly and FreeBSD (last I
> checked), is also accompanied by a rather alarming and short-lived
> whine, as if a spinning disk or fan was suddenly stopped.  I don't get
> this sound with linux or windows.

I had an older system that would do this with the fans; I never saw a
negative effect.  I assumed it was some setting that was tripped as
systems were shutdown, which made the fans react as if the temperature was
too high - perhaps the equivalent of a burst of static.