GFEs and SATA drives (AREV Specific)
At 14 DEC 2005 04:14:00AM Peter Bowyer wrote:
Has anyone had experience of workstations with SATA drives causing GFEs?
At 14 DEC 2005 11:34AM Ray Chan wrote:
We are using SATA with OI and have experienced no problems.
Don't know why this would create any GFE. Have you checked to make sure that your data is pretty clean to begin with?
Ray Chan
At 14 DEC 2005 02:09PM Curt Putnam wrote:
I use SATA with no issues.
At 14 DEC 2005 07:47PM Mike Ruane wrote:
I've heard some anecdotal evidence of problems with on-drive caching, but no hard reports.
At 15 DEC 2005 02:53AM Peter Bowyer wrote:
The problem appears to be that you can't turn off 'write behind caching'. The option is always unavailable i.e. greyed out, even when signed in as PC administrator.
At 15 DEC 2005 04:38AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
The funny thing is on our new PCs we CAN unclick Write behind caching on SATA disks…
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At 16 DEC 2005 03:46AM Peter Bowyer wrote:
Actually so can I, so maybe its down to particular drives or manufacturers? It would be good to know which so we can avoid them for Arev sites.