Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 00:53:26 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS has quality programmers and OS design? Stop smokingcrack! Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010709005230.00b89100@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3B493AFE.24377793@outpost.co.nz> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010708214340.046dd8e0@localhost>
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At 11:02 PM 7/8/2001, Craig Harding wrote: >The tech docs I downloaded from Maxtor's website for this drive (a >Quantum Fireball Plus AS 20GB) list a "flush cache" command which would >presumably do the trick on a shutdown. Is this not a standard ATA >command? It's not universal. And according to Kirk McKusick, some drives "lie" and don't actually flush everything. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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