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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:19:54 +0000
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st
	time around)
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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