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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Subject: Re: Power loss scrambles HD
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.225309.17342@panix.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:53:09 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.230116.2613@panix.com> <1992Dec19.214245.953@blurt.oswego.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <1992Dec19.214245.953@blurt.oswego.edu> mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY) writes:
- >> Question: how can a power-down, with the machine sitting idle with no files
- >> open for writing in DOS, cause a scrambled SCSI drive?
- >
- >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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- OF COURSE NOT!!!
- Several lines up from where you chopped my original posting, I clearly
- said that write cacheing was turned off per my advice.
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