[iyonix-support] Re: Slow shutdown

  • From: "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:42:53 +0100

On 28 Oct 2006 Jeremy C B Nicoll <Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I press Menu over the Iyonix iconbar icon and click on Shutdown.  I
> wait and wait and wait before the "machine will shut down in 5 seconds"
> box comes up.  What on earth is taking so long?  How do I diagnose this?
> 
> Machine has one 120GB hard disk in it, plus CDRW, DVDRW drives and the
> floppy & card reader thing, but only rarely will any of those drives
> actually have been used.  
> 
> I wonder if disk maps (or something) are being written back to the hard
> disk, but if so why does it take so long?

If any non-removable class drives have been seen by filecore during the
session, they need to be there at shutdown, so it can check there is no
difference between its cached information.

Cheers
---Dave

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