Re: inferior SCSI performance

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:46:00PM -0400, Michael Adler wrote:
> So the quesiton is whether it is ever sensible to use write-caching and
> expect comparable persistence.

Yes.  If and only if you have a battery-backed cache.  I know of no
IDE drives that have that, but there's nothing about the spec which
makes it impossible.

A

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