On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> > That works fine.  I wasn't aware of umount -a working for the root fs.
> > Actually, I've thought of one more factor... as far back as I can
> > remember, I've had problems when using shutdown -r now.  I don't recall
> > whether shutdown -h now causes the problem or not, now that I think about
> > it -- which makes sense, since -r does reboot, while -h basically
> > approximates "it is now safe to shut of your macintosh"....
> > 
> > I'm trying a shutdown -h now from multi-user, rebooting from its prompt,
> > booting NetBSD....  No problems whatsoever....  Therefore, it seems to
> > only happen with a shutdown -r now....
> 
> Does your drive go into some sort of sleep mode automatically? It could be
> that the on-disk cache is getting the sectors to write but not getting to
> send them out before MacOS resets the SCSI bus (and possably the drive).

It spins down during a reboot, if that's what you mean.


Davud

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