From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Oct 22 15:51: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from web10302.mail.yahoo.com (web10302.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A8D037B4CF for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20001022225104.11606.qmail@web10302.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.165.7.8] by web10302.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:51:04 NZDT Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:51:04 +1300 (NZDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Graham=20Guttocks?= Subject: help disabling write caching upon bootup To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On my 4.1.1-RELEASE system, I was having problems with the system locking up when my seagate scsi drives underwent heavy I/O. After searching through this list, I decided to try disabling write caching on the drives, and it worked like a charm. The command "camcontrol modepage -v -n da -u 0 -m 0x8 -e" brings me into an editor where I can edit the WCE variable and turn it off. However, each time I reboot the system, I have to repeat this. Is there an easy way to handle this automatically every time the system boots? Regards, Graham _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message