Rebooting Sys V/386

[Michael Grenier]

>From article <1991Mar29.134732.11457 at scuzzy.in-berlin.de>, by src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de (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.)
> -- 

I'm confused. Why not just modify the rc script on shutdown to add a little
time. The inittab entry on this ESIX box simply kills the processes
and run /etc/unmountall (from /etc/rc0) before calling uadmin to reset
the box. Why not add a sleep statement before the end of /etc/rc0?

     -Mike Grenier
     mike at cimcor.mn.org