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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
- Subject: Re: Novice question: how to boot from a bat file?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.214211.20267@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <adgn1#p.messina@netcom.com> <Bttt82.53K@NCoast.ORG> <1992Aug31.183957.1391@mits.mdata.fi>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:42:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.183957.1391@mits.mdata.fi> kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
- >In article <Bttt82.53K@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) writes:
- >>and, if you're running SMARTDRV or other write-behind disk caches, it
- >>stands an excellent chance of trashing your hard disk.
- >
- >Of course you can trash your hard disk if you boot prematurely,
- >but it has nothing to do with whether you do it by jumping
- >to FFFF:0000 or pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or the Reset button.
-
- How long ago was it that we were hashing this one out before?
-
- (As in, is it just my imagination or has the recycle rate gone ski-high
- in just that last few weeks?)
-
- Anyway, for the record, it makes all the difference in the world whether
- you use JMP FFFF:0 or emulate C/A/D, if you are using a write-behind cache.
-
- Some people think this is a bug in SmartDrive... (If you don't get
- this, you really haven't been paying attention!)
-
- Anyway, somebody ought to get Ralf to post the one true solution to the
- auto-reboot program.
-
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