On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:38:54AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Guys, I just replied to this email on the BSDi email list. The issue is > that someone found that some(most?) IDE drives have write cache enabled, > though the drives do not preserve the write cache data on power failure.
It's yet worse than this. Some IDE drives will respond to the command to turn off write cacheing, but they _don't actually turn it off_. In other words, you think you've done the right thing, and you haven't anyway. A -- ---- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Liberty RMS Toronto, Ontario Canada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> M2P 2A8 +1 416 646 3304 x110 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html