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Subject: Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process 
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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