Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:38:54AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Guys, I just replied to this email on the BSDi email list. The issue is > > that someone found that some(most?) IDE drives have write cache enabled, > > though the drives do not preserve the write cache data on power failure. > > It's yet worse than this. Some IDE drives will respond to the > command to turn off write cacheing, but they _don't actually turn it > off_. In other words, you think you've done the right thing, and you > haven't anyway.
Is there an interface to control this with IDE drives? I know there is scsicmd for SCSI, but I didn't think IDE had any similar interface to control the drive. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html