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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:53:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.hata-chipset.cata-dma.c ata-pci.c ata-pci.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304081451140.28056-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030408204325.GA10968@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Olivier Robert wrote:
> > Except for softupdates which rely on its own ordering of writes...
> 
> SCSI has a Force Media Access bit somewhere that is supposed to ensure the
> written data has indeed hit the platter. ENOCLUE on ATA.

I think you mean the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command.  You can also force
ordering in how you use the tags (several NORMALs followed by an ORDERED
tag).

But this is off-topic.

-Nate



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