From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 14:53:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DC337B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 125CE43FB1 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:53:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 28069 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Apr 2003 21:53:48 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:53:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Wilko Bulte In-Reply-To: <20030408204325.GA10968@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.hata-chipset.cata-dma.c ata-pci.c ata-pci.h X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:53:48 -0000 On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Olivier Robert wrote: > > Except for softupdates which rely on its own ordering of writes... > > SCSI has a Force Media Access bit somewhere that is supposed to ensure the > written data has indeed hit the platter. ENOCLUE on ATA. I think you mean the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command. You can also force ordering in how you use the tags (several NORMALs followed by an ORDERED tag). But this is off-topic. -Nate