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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st time around)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:19:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <356ce88f998b0396d2a63836dd78b708@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4v47hvi.fsf@marvin.902northland.adams.home>

It will take a very long time, espicially if your IDE controller is not
known or it is and DMA is known to be problematic.

I suggest you resign yourself to leaving the machine on for many hours,
and then, when it stops rattling its disks, you shut it down (using the
fshalt command).

-Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-26 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-26 20:04 Matt Adams
2010-01-26 20:19 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2010-01-26 20:25   ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-26 21:29   ` Matt Adams

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