Re: restoring after running xfs_repair

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Michael Sinz wrote:

> This sounds like the IDE-write cache does not flush before power off
> problem.  There is a "fix" to this in some systems that has the shutdown
> process, after syncing/unmounting stuff do a powerdown of the IDE
> drives to force them to write their caches before doing a shutdown
> of the ATX power supply via APM/APCI.

Yes, this seems likely now.  After disabling ACPI and APM I noticed a
message indicating that the IDE drives are being flushed.  I don't think
this message was there before.  Probably a problem with my dist. (I'm
using Slackware - I'll report it there).

James Rich