Re: hanging for 30sec when checkpointing

scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Goulet, Dick wrote:
>
> > Scott,
> >
> >     If you feel it is necessary to apologize for such a minor
> > infraction of polite etiquette please come on over to Oracle-L.  We have
> > harshness 10 times greater.  Probably because there are so many
> > practioners and so many different points of view.  We call them "Holy
> > Wars".  The current blazing one is on RAID, the good, the bad, and the
> > ugly.
>
> Hehe, I grew up on FIDO net, so I know all about the flammage... :-)
>
> I can still remember the amiga versus atari ST holy wars of old.
>
> >     BTW: From a Holy War on Oracle-L of similar topic.  There is a
> > difference on how bad that lying IDE drive is depending on who the
> > vendor is, what system it's plugged into, and what OS is being used.
> > Some do a better job than others of "covering up" the lies.  The other
> > chap may have one of those better systems, so from his point of view
> > it's "old fashioned misinformation".  Doesn't mean it's not true, just
> > covered up better.  Kind of like "Air Freshener".
>
> Well, it's interesting that during all the testing I and many others were
> doing last year, it appeared the escalade IDE RAID controllers were doing
> SOMETHING (no is quite sure if it was disabling write cache or not, but we
> guessed that was so) that made the IDE drives under them safe from the
> power off data loss issue that IDE drives seem to suffer from.

Maybe the RAID card has a battery-backed write cache.

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