From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jun 12 12: 0:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F9937B409 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id VAA05597 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:00:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5CIoXB26742; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:50:33 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:50:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200206121850.g5CIoXB26742@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <3CFEC5F4.2070003@webvolution.net> <20020606110101.GU66505@cicely5.cicely.de> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: sync cache X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.scsi To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bernd Walter wrote: > Even if they do not need the command they should have implemented > it as a nop. Why? > Possibly this command is even required in recent SCSI specs. > Such a lousy implementation does not create trust in firmware. Of course, since the entire concept of `cache memory' is optional to the SCSI block device model, the implementation of SYNCHRONIZE CACHE is optional as well. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message