Re: Upgrading my BSDI box, again

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:38:54AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Guys, I just replied to this email on the BSDi email list.  The issue is
> that someone found that some(most?) IDE drives have write cache enabled,
> though the drives do not preserve the write cache data on power failure.

It's yet worse than this.  Some IDE drives will respond to the
command to turn off write cacheing, but they _don't actually turn it
off_.  In other words, you think you've done the right thing, and you
haven't anyway.

A

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