Rebooting Sys V/386

[Heiko Blume]

bill at astph.UUCP (Bill Dripps) writes:
>One reason we discovered (why do we always do it the hard way?) is that
>large cache disk adapters do not have enough time to flush disk blocks to
>the drive before the 'init 6' code jerks the reset line.

i KNEW using those cache-suckers is risky, that's why i don't use them.
(altho i think the ones with battery backed up ram won't discard the cache's
contents on reset.)
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