Great advice. Thanks. (So: Does the Shutdown- Command merely provide for those »spinning down« delays to make sure procedures have terminated?)
> On 29.01.2024, at 21:39, Michael Brutman via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > FAT is finicky but FAT is not the issue here. > > As long as the machine has sufficient time to complete its last writes and > you don't have any programs running using the disk, it should always be safe > to shut down - DOS doesn't buffer or delay writes unless you have some sort > of disk caching program running and if your disk cache is doing something > fancy it will have its own shutdown procedure. > > Hard drives also have write caches and often run with write caching enabled. > The solution is the same - wait a few seconds for the last writes to be > flushed to the media. > > And the same will apply to any other storage device, USB sticks included. > Make sure the system is quiet for a few seconds so the device can commit it's > writes. Then shut down. > > > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 10:22 AM Louis Santillan via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: >> FAT is always a finicky filesystem, especially if you're utilizing a caching >> or BIOS emulation for USB HDDs. Are you using a caching program like >> lbacache, cdrcache, smartdrv, etc? >> >> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 7:11 AM Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user >> <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: >>> I boot FD from a USB Stick. >>> Can using »shutdown« command prevent that a bootable USB Stick with FD >>> becomes unusable? (Happened last week.) >>> >>> add: is the shutdown command also working in the previous FD version? >>> (Which I am normally using. I never used the »shutdown« command before. >>> Just switch off the computer ) >>> >>> >>> T. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freedos-user mailing list >>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> <mailto:Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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