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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2000 02:07:22 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        karsten@rohrbach.de
Cc:        julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer), archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt), mbendiks@eunet.no, terry@lambert.org, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disable write caching with softupdates?
Message-ID:  <200010010207.TAA18108@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001001034719.C83678@rohrbach.de> from "Karsten W. Rohrbach" at Oct 01, 2000 03:47:19 AM

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Karsten writes:
> Julian Elischer(julian@elischer.org)@Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:35:32PM -0700:
> [...]
> > 
> > Archies comment about MOST drives not supporting safe writing of 
> > accepted work is an understatement. When I was testing and selecting 
> > drives for the interjet, I found NO drives that would guarantee that
> > data accepted for writing would be written in the case of power 
> > failure.
> were those only ata or scsi drives, too?

ATA (IDE).  The InterJet uses IDE drives only.  It's not expected
to have a high non-serialized load, even though it has AFS and SMB
servers on board.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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