Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 17:20:16 -0700 From: Dave Tweten <tweten@nas.nasa.gov> To: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: soft update should be default Message-ID: <200105070020.f470KH049120@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: Message from Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> of "Sat, 05 May 2001 18:33:38 MDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105051831050.95873-100000@beastie.saturn-tech.com>
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drussell@saturn-tech.com said: >WCE very dangerous. WCE very dangerous. WCE very dangerous. True, but since the new ATA driver was installed in STABLE about February 25, WCE has also become mandatory for my NEC Versa 6050 MX laptop. If I don't set hw.ata.wc=1, kernel buffers become corrupted. Perhaps the previous driver was silently setting write caching too, but things just don't feel as secure anymore. -- M/S 258-5 | 1024-bit PGP fingerprint: | tweten@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center | 41 B0 89 0A 8F 94 6C 59 | (650) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 | 7C 80 10 20 25 C7 2F E6 | FAX: (650) 604-4377 We each earn what freedom of speech we defend for those who most offend us. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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