Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:58:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching Message-ID: <199810161958.MAA24426@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810161109.GAA16802@nospam.hiwaay.net> from "David Kelly" at Oct 16, 98 06:09:15 am
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> Why not? It might be interesting to put a recording voltmeter such as a > digital storage oscilloscope on the HD power leads when Don is punching > the reset. No telling what kind of voltage surges are generated when > the load on the power supply is altered. > > No telling *if* there are changes in the PS load when reset is punched > either. Think my PPro-166 CPU pulls 10A. If it suddenly stops pulling > that much current when RESET is active then what does the PS do? The errors seen are a result of uncommitted data in the drive cache, not power spikes and gremlins. The interaction is well understood, and on firm footing unrelated to Stephan King novels. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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