Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jon Evans" <> | Subject | RE: Corruption Stats (fwd) | Date | Mon, 3 Aug 1998 09:27:23 +0100 |
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Hi,
> > BTW: A drive following the SCSI-specs may cause disk-corruption > > under Linux (WCE=1). Data may still be in write-cache after > > shutdown and power-off. (I miss "synchronize cache"). > > This is for shure a theoretical problem, but a practical bug. > > Or did I miss something ?
Windows 98, on shutdown, sends the "power off" command to the hard drives. I mean not just if your box has control of the power supply. I hear my hard drives click off as the "It is now safe to switch off your computer" screen appears, and my PC has a "manual" power switch.
So what I'm assuming is that a disk will flush its caches if it receives the power off command. We could use that for "Halt". Bit of a PITA for "Reboot" though.
Jon.
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