Pawel Wojcik wrote:
Only SATA drives that operate under SATA framework and SATA HBA drivers have this option available to them via format -e. That's because they are treated and controlled by the system as scsi drives. >From your e-mail it appears that you are talking about SATA drives connected to legacy controllers, operating under old IDE framework and using pci-ide/ata driver. For those drives, like for any ATA drives, format -e does not provide read/write cache control.
hmm. well I hope sun will fix this bug, and add in the long-missing write_cache control for "regular" ata drives too.
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