From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 27 9:20:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C73A537B423 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 09:20:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rooneg@isris.pair.com) Received: (qmail 87971 invoked by uid 3130); 27 May 2001 16:20:35 -0000 Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:20:35 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney To: Evan S Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates + hw.ata.wc Message-ID: <20010527122033.A84439@electricjellyfish.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kaworu@sektor7.ath.cx on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:21:54PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:21:54PM -0400, Evan S wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > Are there any adverse effects if you have both softupdates and hw.ata.wc > enabeled? yes, read any of the numerous threads on virtually every freebsd mailing list about this subject over the last few weeks for the details. in short, some ide drives lie about when data is actually written to the disk if write cacheing is enabled, and this makes softupdates not work. if you care about your data, keep hw.ata.wc off. -- garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you from rooneg@electricjellyfish.net doing stupid things, because that would http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message