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#hard drive

    21-Apr-88 21:31:22
Sb: #hard drive
Fm: Pete Jordan 76515,302
To: all
A friend told me that you should never switch off or reboot your Amiga 2000 immediately after hard disk activity has occurred. Wait at least 20 seconds after the last command has completed before rebooting etc. It has to do with updating data structures on the hard disk from its internal buffers. This is supposed to be similar to not taking a floppy disk out while the red light is on. Is this a constraint of the AmigaDOS multitasking system? I find it hard to believe that I would have to wait 20 seconds after exiting WordPerfect just to turn off my hard drive. -Pete-