Quoting <20000616110257.B8283 at tux.blackstar.co.uk>
by Wesley Darlington <wesley at blackstar.co.uk>:
> Hi,
>> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:45:27AM +0100, David Murphy wrote:
> > The drive buffers are volatile RAM, therefore the application can't be
> > told the write has suceeded until it's been written to the physical
> > disk.
>> Surely if the raid card's memory is battery backed, the os can be
> told the data is on the disk when it's only in bbram?
Yes. Paul was, I believe, talking about the buffer on the actual disk
though, which isn't battery backed.
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