Re: Prblem whit USB in FreeBSD 8

From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:34:41 +1100
On 2009-Jan-24 12:30:56 -0800, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>I wonder if this situation can be handled automatically. To my ignorant 
>view, our USB mass storage driver can try sending "synchronize cache" 
>command and if that fails then failback to the NO_SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 
>behavior.

This has been discussed in the past.  The problem is that some drives
lock up when you send a "synchronize cache" command so this isn't a
general solution.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

Received on Sun Jan 25 2009 - 05:34:45 UTC

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