Re: Improvements to fsck performance in -current ...?

From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_acm.org> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:15:13 -0700 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:24 UTC

Terry Lambert wrote:
> Unfortunately, IDE disks do not permit disconnected writes, due
> to a bug in the original IDE implementation, ....
> 
> Therefore IDE disks almost universally lie to the driver any
> time write caching is enabled on an IDE drive.

I understand that SATA has fixed a number of problems
in the command set over PATA.  Does anyone know if
SATA handles this issue correctly?

Tim