Hi!
Does the Shutdown- Command merely provide for those »spinning down« delays to...
The idea is that it is better for mechanical harddisks to first
spin down and park heads before you switch off the power supply.
Spinning down may take a moment. Also, this gives the disk the
chance finish
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
> wrote:
>
> FAT is finicky but FAT is not the issue here.
>
> As long as the machine
Hi!
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?
Of those 3, only SMARTDRV can cache data before it gets written.
Even this delayed write caching is a
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
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> 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
