Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:02:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> Cc: sos@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: disable write caching with softupdates? Message-ID: <200009211702.KAA13662@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009211342490.38107-100000@login-1.eunet.no> "from Marius Bendiksen at Sep 21, 2000 01:43:36 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Marius Bendiksen writes: > > > The ATA drives Whistle is using, which is what I'm assuming > > > Archie is on about, do _not_ support this facility. As far > > > as I can tell, there wre some SCSI drives manufactured by > > > IBM at one time which could do this, and some lab drives at > > > Quantum (also SCSI). > > Hmm, well, lets disable this then, there is no need to complicate > > things :) > > Please make this conditional, as people with non-crippled hardware might > want to employ the write cache. A sysctl or build option would be best. Yep, that was what I was originally suggesting. Soren do you want me to try to come up with a patch? I don't claim to understand IDE technology.. can you just send the disable command at any time or is it more complicated than that? Thanks, -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200009211702.KAA13662>