From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 20 19:57:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2569E37B417 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23536; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:26:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010921035414.B75668@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:26:07 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: j mckitrick Subject: Re: hw.ata.wc && hw.ata.tags && softupdates short question Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nuno Teixeira , "David W. Chapman Jr." 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 21-Sep-2001 j mckitrick wrote: > | Doesn't harware write cache usually write itself to disk before power > | outage or even after? > > And wouldn't a laptop be safe with write caching? At least if I keep the > battery in? Sure, but it is still a risk Make backups often if you use WC :) Personally I'd backup my drive, enable WC, do a whole bunch of writes and then pull the power to see what the damage is like :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message