Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:26:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching Message-ID: <199810181926.MAA19706@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19981017191758.A13174@gvr.org> from "Guido van Rooij" at Oct 17, 98 07:17:58 pm
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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. > > I always thought a drive will always be able to flush its write cache > to disk, even when power fails. The disks which do this are no longer being manufactured by Quantum. I know, because we tried to buy them, in volume. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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