Improvements to fsck performance in -current ...?

[Tim Kientzle]

Terry Lambert wrote:
> Unfortunately, IDE disks do not permit disconnected writes, due
> to a bug in the original IDE implementation, ....
> 
> Therefore IDE disks almost universally lie to the driver any
> time write caching is enabled on an IDE drive.

I understand that SATA has fixed a number of problems
in the command set over PATA.  Does anyone know if
SATA handles this issue correctly?

Tim