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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:13:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu>
To:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
Cc:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Subject:   Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.53.0507151509410.15102@vomit.ugcs.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200507152203.j6FM3nsL015084@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
References:  <200507152203.j6FM3nsL015084@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>

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> I know my drive allows disabling of the write cache, as, apparently, the
> majority of IDE/SATA drives do.
Yes fair enough.  This command is in the specification as far back as
ata-1.  I guess it yields reasonable? performance?

You should, however, be telling sos@ this--if he doesn't already believe
it.

-Jon



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