dangerous situation with shutdown process

[Anatoliy Dmytriyev]

Kevin Oberman wrote:

>SCSI or ATA? If it's ATA, turn off write cache with (atacontrol(8) or
>the sysctl.
>
>The problem is that disks lie about whether they have actually written
>data. If the power goes off before the data is in cache, it's lost.
>
>I am not sure if write-cache can be turned off on SCSI, but SCSI drives
>seem less likely to lie about when the data is actually flushed to the
>drive. 
>  
>

SCSI, Adaptec 2110S

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Anatoliy Dmytriyev
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