Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:57:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, gibbs@plutotech.com, 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 Message-ID: <199810051757.KAA20911@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810050357.VAA05121@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Oct 4, 98 09:51:23 pm
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> 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-fs" in the body of the message
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