scott.marlowe wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Goulet, Dick wrote: > > > Scott, > > > > If you feel it is necessary to apologize for such a minor > > infraction of polite etiquette please come on over to Oracle-L. We have > > harshness 10 times greater. Probably because there are so many > > practioners and so many different points of view. We call them "Holy > > Wars". The current blazing one is on RAID, the good, the bad, and the > > ugly. > > Hehe, I grew up on FIDO net, so I know all about the flammage... :-) > > I can still remember the amiga versus atari ST holy wars of old. > > > BTW: From a Holy War on Oracle-L of similar topic. There is a > > difference on how bad that lying IDE drive is depending on who the > > vendor is, what system it's plugged into, and what OS is being used. > > Some do a better job than others of "covering up" the lies. The other > > chap may have one of those better systems, so from his point of view > > it's "old fashioned misinformation". Doesn't mean it's not true, just > > covered up better. Kind of like "Air Freshener". > > Well, it's interesting that during all the testing I and many others were > doing last year, it appeared the escalade IDE RAID controllers were doing > SOMETHING (no is quite sure if it was disabling write cache or not, but we > guessed that was so) that made the IDE drives under them safe from the > power off data loss issue that IDE drives seem to suffer from.
Maybe the RAID card has a battery-backed write cache. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
