From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 5 11:10:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96DB37B40F for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f85IA0D93635; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965FA37B405 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b030.otenet.gr [195.167.121.158]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f85I1D717239 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:01:13 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f85HYPJ02439; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:34:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) Message-Id: <200109051734.f85HYPJ02439@hades.hell.gr> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:34:25 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: docs/30343: minor changes to ata(4) manpage Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 30343 >Category: docs >Synopsis: minor changes to ata(4) manpage >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Sep 05 11:10:00 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Giorgos Keramidas >Release: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD hades.hell.gr 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #5: Tue Sep 4 19:49:44 EEST 2001 root@hades.hell.gr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHARON i386 >Description: The manpage of ata(4) describes how to enable hw.ata.wc by setting it to 1, but does not describe how to turn it off. Of course, setting to 0 disables it, and it *is* set to 0 by default, but state that explicitly in the manpage. Also reword a warning that follows this to make it clearer that it is with the sysctl 'enabled' that there is a danger for data corruption. >How-To-Repeat: $ man 4 ata Look for the description of hw.ata.wc sysctl knob. >Fix: Index: ata.4 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/ata.4,v retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -r1.20 ata.4 --- ata.4 14 Jul 2001 19:40:46 -0000 1.20 +++ ata.4 5 Sep 2001 17:33:07 -0000 @@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ .It Va hw.ata.atapi_dma set to 1 for DMA access 0 for PIO (default is PIO). .It Va hw.ata.wc -set to 1 to enable Write Caching (default is disabled) -(WARNING might cause data loss on power failures) +set to 1 to enable or 0 to disable Write Caching (default is disabled) +(WARNING: enabling this might cause data loss on power failures) .It Va hw.ata.tags set to 1 to enable Tagged Queuing support (default is disabled) (only IBM DPTA and DTLA drives support that) >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message