From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 19 8:34:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAE137B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A3043E42 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from m2a2.myip.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C517A3831 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:34:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id C5830507B7; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:34:27 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root (/) not soft-updates by default ? References: <20020819144928.GA6628@nebula.wanadoo.fr> <20020819105452.A14530@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: (Chris Pepper's message of "Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:03:09 -0400") From: Matthias Andree Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:34:27 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Pepper 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message