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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:42:34 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching 
Message-ID:  <199810162349.RAA11679@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:58:17 -0000." <199810161958.MAA24426@usr04.primenet.com> 

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>The errors seen are a result of uncommitted data in the drive cache,
>not power spikes and gremlins.  The interaction is well understood,
>and on firm footing unrelated to Stephan King novels.

And why do you think the drive didn't bother to commit the data even
though power was constantly supplied to the drive and only a few,
recent transactions were lost?  Most likely because hitting the
reset switch caused a power glitch that reverted the drive to its
power on state.

--
Justin



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