shutdown on BSD and Linux

[Erik Wikström]

On 2006-09-07 17:50, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
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.
I have a computer on which the fan-controls does not start working until 
somewhere post BIOS, before that they run for full. Might be something 
like that but in reverse, the fan-control is disabled and the fans run 
for full by default. How does the computer sound when it starts?

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Erik Wikström