Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:04:50 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c Message-ID: <20011024210450.B70640@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20011024134810.C77798-100000@achilles.silby.com> References: <200110241824.f9OIOAn77833@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011024134810.C77798-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:51:39PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > des 2001/10/24 11:24:10 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c > > Log: > > Don't enable write cacheing on devices that don't support tagged queuing > > unless hw.ata.wc is set. > > > > Approved by: sos > > MFC after: 1 week > > Why are we changing this again? It was turned back on because without > write caching many people reported huge slowdowns. Has there since been > an influx of reports of huge losses of data on all versions other than > 4.3? > > (Should I bring up the irony of the tagged-queueing IBM drives having a > high failure rate? <g>) > I have one and unfortunately I just found out about that also. I hope I don't get hit by that problem!!!! -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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