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 -- ____________________________________________________________________________ David J. Ruck Phone: +44- (0)7974 108301 Email: druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx ____________________________________________________________________________ --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support