Subject: Re: Seagate SCSI write-back drive cache
To: Laine Stump <laine@MorningStar.Com>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/24/1997 09:41:27
>> >./scsi -e -f /dev/rsd0d -m 8 -P 3
>> 
>> >and change WCE to "1".
>
>Just how safe is this even in the case where you have a UPS? Does the
>drive properly send the sector to a spare if it encounters an error
>while trying to write?

If you have AWRE turned on in mode page 1, yes.  Most drives ship with
it turned on, but you should make sure.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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