Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:42:35 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ertr1013@student.uu.se Subject: Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem Message-ID: <200611301242.kAUCgZLi038495@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20061129182406.GA87529@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > > > Please understand that this is an honest question but isn't that true > > > only of IDE heritage drives. E.g. If a SCSI drive with Tagged Queuing > > > says that the the bits have been written doesn't it mean that the bits > > > have really been written? > > > > Right, unless the SCSI drive has a label saying "Quantum". > > In other words: Yes, assuming the SCSI drive works as it should. Not > all SCSI drives work as they should. Right. However, exactly the same is also true for IDE/ATA disks: assuming that they work as they should ... But it seems that for (server-grade) SCSI drives the chances are better than for (consumer-grade) IDE/ATA drives. > > PS: Quantum is today owned by maxtor, isn't it? I've lost > > track of HD manufacturers when Seagate bought Conner ... > > Quantum and Maxtor merged and became Maxtor. Maxtor was recently > bought by Seagate, so it is Seagate that owns Quantum these days. Uh, so now Seagate practically owns Quantum, Maxtor _and_ Conner? They got pretty fat then, it seems. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I didn't have C++ in mind." -- Alan Kay, OOPSLA '97
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