From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 13:50:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.netdoor.com (netdoor.com [208.137.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614D937B409 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcouch@netdoor.com) Received: from katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com (port81.tup.netdoor.com [208.137.140.145]) by pike.netdoor.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA20660 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:50:23 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim couch Reply-To: jcouch@netdoor.com Organization: AmberSkogg Development To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: sysctl variable hw.ata.wc Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:50:21 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062415502101.00699@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I turn this on at boot time with set hw.ata.wc=1 at the boot prompt does this only last till I reboot or is it persistent? If it is not persistent how do I go about enableing it so that I don't have to interrupt boot-up each time to tun it on?? Thanks Jim P.S. Thanks for the info on softupdates. It was exactly what I was looking for. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message