On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:18:39PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
What Andrew is saying is that on some IDE drives it doesn't matter
what the OS tells the drive to do. According to the Linux hdparm
Right. In other words, you can't really trust IDE drives, until the
manufacturers start
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:38:54AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
[ CC to Kurt and Steven on bsdi list.]
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
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
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
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
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
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
[ CC to Kurt and Steven on bsdi list.]
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.
I am surprised we have not heard of
