From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Oct 23 9:57:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [194.138.37.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D2837B4C5 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:57:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) Received: from mail1.siemens.de (mail1.siemens.de [139.23.33.14]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9NGvel28482; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:57:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail1.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9NGvd915601; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:57:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9NGvdg66918; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:57:38 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Graham Guttocks Cc: Andre Albsmeier , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help disabling write caching upon bootup Message-ID: <20001023185738.B8357@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <20001023151533.30295.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001023151533.30295.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com>; from graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:15:33AM +1300 X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 24-Oct-2000 at 04:15:33 +1300, Graham Guttocks wrote: > Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > You might want to look into the adaptec bios. The newer versions > > have the possibility to control this for each drive. Maybe it > > is set to on there... > > My adaptec bios didn't have such an option unfortunately. But this is a separate controller, not an onboard controller, right? In the first case you can flash your bios to version 2.57.2 from adaptec and set the write cache explicitely to disabled there... -Andre > > Graham > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs > - Join a club or build your own! -- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect! Reboot now? [OK] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message