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Date:      Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:35:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, jrossiter@symantec.com, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Severe I/O Problems
Message-ID:  <200110140935.f9E9Z2g25270@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110140146280.4910-100000@beppo>

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It seems Matthew Jacob wrote:
> I don't doubt this. I just would suggest that there is such a spread of h/w
> and configurations that sometimes turning on WC is fantastic, and sometimes
> not so fantastic.

Hmm, I know of no drives that shuld perform worse with WC on, but your
case shows there could be such problems...

> D'ya think you could come up with a little tester program that could predict
> whether WC would make sense for a particular h/w configuration or not? That'd
> be darned usefull.

Hmm, that should be pretty easy, but I also have to integrate some of
my other stuff so that WC can be changed *safely* with atacontrol...

-Søren

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