On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:46:00PM -0400, Michael Adler wrote: > So the quesiton is whether it is ever sensible to use write-caching and > expect comparable persistence.
Yes. If and only if you have a battery-backed cache. I know of no IDE drives that have that, but there's nothing about the spec which makes it impossible. A -- ---- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Afilias Canada Toronto, Ontario Canada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> M2P 2A8 +1 416 646 3304 x110 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly