From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 22:06:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18617 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:06:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18604 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:06:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA07948; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:05:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:05:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901130605.WAA07948@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mattias Pantzare Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks? Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message