On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:18:39PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
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> 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 guarantee
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
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:39, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > 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
> > ha
Something similar to Linux's hdparm ?
http://www.google.com/search?q=hdparm%20bsd
-*- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2003-07-30 19:41 ]:
> 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
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 dat
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 w
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
[ 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 th
