On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 11:31, Joe Thornber wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:27:24PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > Some IDE drives ignore commands to turn off the write back cache, or > > turn it back on when load gets high. > > I'm amazed hardware manufacturers would dare to do such a thing - I > guess I'm naive. Its not explicitly against the spec. Some of them also like to make "cache flush" a no-op too. The next generation of ATA is supposed to add explicit "direct to media" write command facilities _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
