What are the shutdown requirements?
For years, it has been wise to always let the AMOS disk caches and hardware drive caches flush before turning off the power. My personal suggestion has been to MONTST into a short .INI before turning off the power. With the AM-8000, we suggest a more formal shutdown of the Shutdown option in the File menu of the AM-8000 System screen. This will automatically do a software and soft power shutdown. However, if you are using AMOS SCSI disk drives, the safest procedure would begin, as above, with a MONTST to flush the AMOS disk cache. As a side note: In all of our testing of the AM-8000, DSKANA has fixed any problems where powering down was the apparent cause, but don’t count on it – use a UPS!
