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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:36:13 +0100
From:      Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks? 
Message-ID:  <199901121757.SAA04022@zed.ludd.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>  of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:42:10 PST." <199901120042.QAA98330@apollo.backplane.com> 

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>     No no ... don't hit the reset key.  If you make a mistake and hit reset
>     just as the HD is writing a sector, you'll loose the sector (or worse).
>     HD's do *NOT* have enough capacitance on the power bus to finish the
>     write.  They really don't ... it's an computer geek's urban myth.

Realy? Why would the power dissapear from the HD when I press the _reset_ 
button?

Is it not a big propability that the HD is writing on a sector at a power 
failure on a loaded server? The disks usualy survive a power failure with no 
problems att all.



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