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- From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Power loss scrambles HD
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.214245.953@blurt.oswego.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 02:42:45 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.230116.2613@panix.com>
- Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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- > Question: how can a power-down, with the machine sitting idle with no files
- > open for writing in DOS, cause a scrambled SCSI drive?
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- Did he have a write delayed ram cache? Maybe some of the latest changes
- were still in ram when the power went down.
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- Allen Mulvey
- mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
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