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Date:      Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:12:55 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, remy@synx.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk write caches
Message-ID:  <199803051912.MAA00602@usr06.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803050722.IAA08153@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Mar 5, 98 08:22:16 am

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> > I am *specifically* interested in what an FS mounted with soft updates
> > would do (as I don't personally have the hardware wherewithall to be
> > able to answer the question for myself; my DEC drives don't seem to
> > allow me to turn things off).
> 
> What do you want to turn of? And what drives? I might be able to find out
> how to 'convince' them

Julian's going to do it to some hardware here.

What I wanted to turn off was the write cache onboard the disk drive
itself.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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