From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 31 9:15:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C9C37B402; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from unity.zacha.xs4all.nl (zacha.xs4all.nl [213.84.201.224]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g0VHEmXC095604; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:14:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from silver (silver.zacha.xs4all.nl [172.23.3.20]) by unity.zacha.xs4all.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0VHG0u14241; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:16:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from walter@binity.com) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:13:46 +0100 From: Walter Hop X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Educational Reply-To: walter@i.r00ted.it X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <223591572.20020131181346@i.r00ted.it> To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Again Softupdates on 4.5 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020131155013.01c870c8@mail.drwilco.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020131155013.01c870c8@mail.drwilco.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to drwilco@drwilco.net, 31/01/2002] > Wouldn't the Right Thing (tm) be to ask the controllers/disk whether or > not their caches are clean? Assuming such a thing is even possible. If I recall correctly, IDE drives always lie about this.. -- Walter Hop Updated contact information: http://www.binity.com/~walter/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message