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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:20:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-SCSI@FreeBSD.ORG, filo@yahoo.com, dg@root.com, gibbs@plutotech.com
Subject:   Re: problems with reboot
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970715102057.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
In-Reply-To: <199707151050.UAA16854@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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Hi Bruce Evans;  On 15-Jul-97 you wrote: 
> >*  It appears that the shutdown procedure does a umount -a and that
> umount issues a close to sd.c...
> 
> Open swap devices prevent the last close in some cases.

This needs fixing, then.

> >*  I further confused the issue by ASKING ``Does the /sbin/reboot
> command 
> >   umount or not?''  I then added that, if memory does not fail me,
> UnixWare
> >   equivalent of /sbin/reboot does not and indeed can cause this sort of
> >   failure.  BTW, most other O/S do NOT issue the ``PREVENT/ALLOW...''
> pairs
> 
> It does for clean shutdowns only.  If syncing all busy buffers succeeds,
> then all file systems are unmounted.   Otherwise, file systems are not
> unmounted.
> 
> Summary: this doesn't work quite right yet.

DPT Users:  Beware! :-)

One idea (which vilotes the warranty on the cards);  solder (carefully!!!)
a 20 pin DIP socket over the 10 LED's on the board (holes are provided) and 
extend the LED array out t o the front.  Do not kell power before your see
the idle pattern.

Simon



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