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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:27:27 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Steve Byan <stephen_byan@maxtor.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: JFS vs. Soft Updates (again) (was: Re: large filesystem, journaling filesystem support)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301221024310.49285-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <2F16E2F0-2E20-11D7-962B-00306548867E@maxtor.com>

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Steve Byan wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 05:39  PM, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >
> > If you want to address throwing a chock in the wheels and/or
> > dumping the write queue to on-board NVRAM, assuming an inverse
> > AC fail notification, if it's turned on (off by default to
> > account for floating cable pins, rather than active low, on
> > some motherboards, to avoid sabotaging your existing market),
> > that would be nice too.  ;^).


if you had a way for the CPU to throw the chock in  that would be
cheapest.. it would be just firmware..
(It may already exist, but it needs to be documented as part of the
'power fail proceedure').

it needs to be able to interrupt whatever is already going on on the
drive..

maybe some version of the ata reset?

> 
> How much extra would you pay? Would you buy sole-sourced drives to get 
> these features? These are all do-able. Negotiate with your vendors. Ask 
> to talk to the drive marketing folks, to get your message heard back at 
> the plant.


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