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Subject: Re: ahci.ko in RELENG_8_2, what about atacontrol cap?
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On 4/3/2011 6:21 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Works perfectly, but I just noticed one really odd thing:
> 
> 1. boot without ahci.ko:
> 
> nas-pmh# atacontrol cap ad4
> ...
> write cache                    yes	yes
> 2. boot with ahci.ko:
> nas-pmh# camcontrol identify ada0
> ...
> write cache                    yes	no
> Well? ;-) The system is a HP NL36 - I just found a couple

Is not the default from the ata driver hw.ata.wc=1 ?  Are you setting
this to zero in /boot/loader.conf or /etc/sysctl.conf perhaps ?

	---Mike


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