From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Oct 4 20:59:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24299 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:59:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24146; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:58:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@plutotech.com) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05121; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 21:57:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199810050357.VAA05121@pluto.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert cc: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs), julian@whistle.com, Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 01:08:48 -0000." <199810030108.SAA02581@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 21:51:23 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> >I told you so. >> >> You told me some things that were in-correct and some things that >> I already knew. Par for the course. > >Feel free to make his setup work with SCSI write caching enabled. 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. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message