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Date:      Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:55:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        "D. Rock" <rock@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dirty fs after apm power off
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901231354430.21631-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901232144.WAA10840@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>

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probably the drive needs write-caching turned off...


On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, D. Rock wrote:

> I have noticed this behaviour on at least one machine.
> If I shutdown the machine with apm power off, the filesystem is dirty and
> has to been checked on the next reboot. It seems, the power is cut too fast.
> I don't have any problems with reboots.
> It seems the drive doesn't have the time to write the superblock back to disk.
> 
> I simply put a DELAY(4000000) in the apm_power_off() routine and the problem
> fades away.
> Any thoughts on doing this a configurable option? It doesn't break anything,
> it only takes a few seconds longer for the machine to power off.
> 
> The drive is a Maxtor Diamond Max (90432D2) 4GB IDE drive in an Asus SP98
> board.
> 
> Daniel
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