On Dec 23, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Alex wrote:
Running hdparm reported A) 920mb/s (SCSI 10k) B) 270mb/s (SCSI 10k) C) 1750mb/s (IDE 7.2k)
IDE disks lie about write completion (This can be disabled on some drives) whereas SCSI drives wait for the data to actually be written before they report success. It is quite
easy to corrupt a PG (Or most any db really) on an IDE drive. Check the archives for more info.
-- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/
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