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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:34:27 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ?
Message-ID:  <m3it26lv5o.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <a05200603b986b8c719fa@[129.85.219.160]> (Chris Pepper's message of "Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:03:09 -0400")
References:  <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr> <20020819105452.A14530@blackhelicopters.org> <a05200603b986b8c719fa@[129.85.219.160]>

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Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> writes:

> 	If we should be disabling write caching on IDE installations,
> can you point me to instructions for the procedure? I'd like to call it
> out more in the docs.

To turn the IDE write cache off, put

hw.ata.wc="0"

into /boot/loader.conf, that's it.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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