Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:57:22 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Corruption Stats: Suggested Blacklist from the data |
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Joseph Malicki wrote: > ... > Maxtor DiamondMax 6.4GB (cant remember model #'s), which I'm > sure are fine drives.... could this be related to not flushing the IDE drive's > cache? I noticed NT 4.0 had a hotfix to enable flushing of write-cache, > so I am under the impression that it is possible.... and yes, my machine > does automatically turn off. But I have experienced no other fs > corruption except for locked kernels that I had to reset...
Write-caching should be OFF on IDE drives by default. The ATA specs allow any default, but nearly all units seem to have it OFF by default.
You can use "hdparm -W" to play with it, though. -- mlord@pobox.com The (ex-)Linux IDE guy
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