RE: [MiNT] Quitting MiNT & MultiTOS

[Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	johnnie ligotage [SMTP:johnnie@ligotage.demon.co.uk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 11, 1999 12:59 AM
> To:	MiNT Enquiries
> Subject:	[MiNT] Quitting MiNT & MultiTOS
> 
> What is the recommended way of `turning off` our machines, if you are
> running AES 4.1 (Atari MultiTOS) on the console?
> 
> In the last month, I must have trashed my drives 6 times - minix V2 and
> ext2. Usually /home, but always something I haven't recently backed up.
> 
> I know no way of shutting down the system, cleanly, with a version of GEM
> running on the console, be it AES4.1 or Geneva rel.6 and it keeps trashing
> my drives. :-[
> 
Basically all you have to do is to make sure that the writeback-cache is
flushed before you switch off. This is done automatically every 5 seconds,
and also (AFAIK) when you call shutdown(). I have only used one
shutdown-program, and this one only works with N.AES. I have no idea if
there even exists shutdown-programs that works with other AES'es (it
probably do.).

Jo Even Skarstein