From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Oct 18 12:26:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27047 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27027; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:26:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24326; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:26:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd024301; Sun Oct 18 12:26:07 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19706; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:26:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810181926.MAA19706@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching To: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:26:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981017191758.A13174@gvr.org> from "Guido van Rooij" at Oct 17, 98 07:17:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The errors seen are a result of uncommitted data in the drive cache, > > not power spikes and gremlins. The interaction is well understood, > > and on firm footing unrelated to Stephan King novels. > > I always thought a drive will always be able to flush its write cache > to disk, even when power fails. The disks which do this are no longer being manufactured by Quantum. I know, because we tried to buy them, in volume. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message