"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will the drive finish writing the blocks even if the computer crashes?
If it's a software crash, probably. The write caching feature is very manufacturer dependent so it's hard to tell, there isn't much documentation about it. > It has been many years since I had a desktop machine; are IDE disks > commonly used on them? Yes, almost all desktop machines use IDE/SATA disks nowadays. > It seems really dumb if there is no way for the CPU to tell the disk, > "Write these blocks now, and tell me when you're done." There is a way, but when the drive reports that it has written the blocks it may just have stored them in its write cache. -- Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The world is a fine place, it's a miracle -- http://orebokech.com/ | and worth fighting for. | --Ernest Hemingway _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
