Re: Odd APM oops

Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
24 Aug 1999 14:44:35 -0500

Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
>No power off on shutdown is not SMP safe. It kind of happens to work on a lot
>of boards. If making that APM call reformats your disk and plays tetris
>on an SMP box the bios vendor is within spec (if a little peculiar).

So if I use a drive I can do without (or just boot of CD without a hard
drive) and try to power off on shutdown on an SMP machine, I might get
to play Tetris? Cool - where can I get one of these? :-)

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