On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 07:51:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > > *if you have the write cache disabled* > > > > *Running with the write cache enabled is a bad idea* > > On ATA devices, you can't permanently disable the write cache. You have > to do it on every power cycles.
There are also drives that ignore attempts to turn off write caching. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org