From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 write cache?
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:52:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407161252020.6005-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd8u3l$p1r$1@wolfberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, David Eckhardt wrote:
> Sam Hopkins (sah@softcardsystems.com) pointed out to me in
> private mail this charming message:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0304.1/0450.html
> which is a post from a Maxtor employee to the effect that IDE
> drives are allowed to arbitrarily re-order writes if the "write
> cache" is turned on.
if only the ide drives talked 9p ...
only about 1/4 kidding.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-16 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-13 8:25 David Eckhardt
2004-07-13 8:48 ` Boris Maryshev
2004-07-16 17:03 ` David Eckhardt
2004-07-16 18:52 ` ron minnich [this message]
2004-07-16 19:22 ` Brantley Coile
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