From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Oct 5 10:57:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21897 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:57:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21879; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28142; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:57:17 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd028058; Mon Oct 5 10:57:08 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA20911; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:57:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810051757.KAA20911@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching To: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:57:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, gibbs@plutotech.com, julian@whistle.com, Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810050357.VAA05121@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Oct 4, 98 09:51:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I gave the recipe for this on freebsd-alpha near the end of september. > > 1) Use a UPS. > > 2) Use a drive with non-bogus firmware. Recent Seagate and IBM > drives should work just fine. I haven't validated any Quantum > drives in this regard yet. I think the base assumption should be that the firmware is bogus, unless proven otherwise. You could have a "known good" table; I think a "known rogues" table would be too large. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message