Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:05:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks? Message-ID: <199901130605.WAA07948@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.
Well, you are right about that. But I'd still not trust a SCSI bus
reset from not messing a drive in mid-write up.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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