On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:12:18 -0700 
 "Erik E. Fair" <fair@clock.org> wrote:

 > It worked - I compiled a new kernel, shut the previous one down to single
 > user mode, unmounted everything (except root, of course), and halted with a
 > power off (after sync'ing myself silly), and fsck found damage on / when
 > the new kernel came up.
 > 
 > I shut down the new kernel to single user, umounted everything, created a
 > file, deleted the file, sync'd, and halt -p. No damage found on reboot.
 > 
 > So, for at least the particular combination of a SPARC Classic (sun4m), and
 > a Quantum 1080S, the SCSI SYNCHRONIZE CHACHE command at shutdown apparently
 > had the desired result.

Excellent!

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