Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:18:48 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS has quality programmers and OS design? Stop smokingcrack! Message-ID: <20010709141848.C22125@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010709005230.00b89100@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:53:26AM -0600 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010708214340.046dd8e0@localhost> <3B493AFE.24377793@outpost.co.nz> <4.3.2.7.2.20010709005230.00b89100@localhost>
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: MS has quality programmers and OS design? Stop smokingcrack! Date: Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:53:26AM -0600 > 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. Oops! Clickety click... /me editing /boot/loader.conf to turn hw.ata.wc back to zero. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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