On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: lm@cobaltmicro.com (Larry McVoy)
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 12:22:23 -0700
>
> The default on every SCSI & FC disk I've ever seen (and I've seen a
> fair number including drives from HP, Seagate, Quantum, IBM,
> Maxstor, and probably others I'm forgetting) is to /not/ do write
> caching. If the drive says the write is done, it is done.
>
> Sort of. I know there are drives which write cache, but only do so
> such that the energy from the spindown from a power failure is 2 or 3
> times more than would be needed to do the last minute flush of any
> cached writes.
>
> Later,
> David "Sparc" Miller
> davem@caip.rutgers.edu
>