On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 07:03 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > I see that Lenny came to town yesterday. I've been tracking Testing and > yesterday doing an update+upgrade gave me about 230 packages to upgrade. > All went normally and my system is still purring along happily :-) I did > get a warning about hdparm. It said that /dev/hda had Write chaching > enabled and this was not a good idea because in the event of a power > failure it could cause serious data loss. > > Not being one to argue, I dutifully did #hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda and now > write-caching is no longer enabled. For my own reassurance, was this the > sensible thing to do?
Yeah... personally, that is someone smoking the "paranoia" crack. I've only ever had problems when I was using a couple of western digital drives and then it was corrected by firmware updates to the drives. (replacement from Western Digital) Show me where this has really been a problem in the last 4 years. Before then, maybe. Things have changed firmware has gotten better, write caching is still okay to use. Why else would manufacturers put cache ON-BOARD the hard-drives if it was BAD... do you think they LIKE SPENDING MONEY on things that won't be used? They would rather just not include it and save more money. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
