On Mon, 2 May 2005, c0ldbyte wrote:
I have a "HDD Post Write Buffer" in the BIOS according to the MB manual
although the disks aren't connected to the MB controllers they are on RAID 5 set off a PCI-X card. Will give it a go tomorrow ( drag the monitor
back to the rack ). Will this have any performance penalties? I could
just avoid using shutdown -p but it seems a bit dodgy what its doing.
If this machine where miles away without remote console it would have
caused major amounts of pain.
Why would you use shutdown -p on a remote machine anyway. I could see possibly a shutdown -r but -p come on.
I use it regularly -- for remote boxes that are in someone else's facility, I'd much rather I was the one who powered them off and told them when they were ready to unplug than having them do it. Life is a bit better with the advent of soft power via case power buttons, but still...
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