David Taylor wrote: >No. I'm just asking if you know of ANY ata drives that will wait for the >cache to be flushed before claiming the disable cache command has >succeeded. I don't, but I haven't looked.
I don't know either. I assume that they do. Does it matter? I mean, I'm not suggesting a frivolous new theory that is highly speculative and warrants a lengthy debate on its purported merits. What I described is common practice on Windows, Linux and probably a few other systems and I would think that they're not doing this for nothing. And, frankly, I'm a bit astonished that the FreeBSD (community) seems to be so ignorant of well-known measures for improving data safety on consumer-grade desktop hardware. Does that mean that FreeBSD is deemed generally unsuited for desktop and laptop use and should be reserved for servers with the appropriate (expensive) hardware? I hope not. mkb. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"