From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:445482a9{at}w3....

> handle system shutdowns correctly. It's one reason why you have the UPS
> units that are connected to the server(s) with USB (or serial port or
> whatever) - the idea is that they send a request to the system to shut
down
> in time before the battery runs out, and the system then sends the
shutdown
> message to all processes running. It's up to the software writers to
> actually handle the graceful shutdown.

I never connect battery backups to the system because I HATE that feature.
I have lost more machines because of that crap than any other single cause.

Have you ever seen what happens to NT if the shutdown hangs at "saving
system files" and the battery runs out? Total and complete registry
corruption. It's better to just have the power fail than to have it fail
during a shutdown.

Besides, I don't care about graceful shutdowns, it's NTFS it can handle
that, I care about maximum uptime and those last few minutes may be all I
need to make it till the power comes back on.

Geo.

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