Bug 84264

Summary: [patch] ata(4) manpage disagrees with tuning(7) manpage about hw.ata.wc
Product: Documentation Reporter: Gary W. Swearingen <garys>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Gary W. Swearingen 2005-07-29 03:40:12 UTC 
Manpage tuning(7) says that write caching can cause data loss on power
failures OR CRASHES, while ata(4) only mentions power failures.

Fix: Assume the worst (and trust Dillon, IIRC) and fix ata manpage:
How-To-Repeat: n/a
Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-07-29 11:47:50 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Committed.  Thanks.  I'll merge the changes to RELENG_x branches 
in a few days.
Comment 2 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-07-29 11:47:50 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida

MFC reminder.
Comment 3 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-06-23 19:41:30 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

This has been MFC'd by brueffer in revision 1.52.2.4 of ata.4 

# revision 1.52.2.4 
# date: 2006/01/27 15:58:01;  author: brueffer;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -3 
# MFC: rev. 1.53, 1.60, 1.61 
#  
# - hw.ata.wc can cause data loss on crashes too.  This brings the 
#   description of the hw.ata.wc in sync with tuning(7) 
# - Via VT8251 support. 
# - Support for Marvell chipsets.