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<<On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:36:09 +0100, Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> said:

> I posted about softupdate problems on a SCSI system with DISABLED WRITE
> CACHE, on a somewhat flakey Micropolis drive that froze and caused

If the hardware is broken, all bets are off, soft updates or no.

-GAWollman