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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:59:48 -0500
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Subject:   Re: hw.ata.wc && hw.ata.tags && softupdates short question
Message-ID:  <20010920215948.D78811@leviathan.inethouston.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010921122607.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20010921035414.B75668@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <XFMail.20010921122607.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:26:07PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> Make backups often if you use WC :)

Shouldn't need to do it more often than normal.


> 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 :)
> 
do this same without WC and see the damage that is done.

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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