Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:12:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Magdalinin Kirill <bsdforumen@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: turning off write cache on SCSI drive Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0110041556180.11068-100000@onyx> In-Reply-To: <15292.48443.672916.539479@guru.mired.org>
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Magdalinin Kirill <bsdforumen@hotmail.com> types: > > Hello, > > some mail posts on softupdates says that turning off write cache is > > prerequisite for it. > > They're generally talking about IDE drives. SCSI drives have tagged > queuing, which means you're perfectly safe doing this. Why tagged queuing make it safe to turn WCE on? -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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