From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 9 22: 3: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newsguy.com (perry.pathlink.com [209.155.233.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71BD37B424 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 22:03:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (ppp113-bsace7001.telebrasilia.net.br [200.181.80.113]) by newsguy.com (8.11.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f4A52YD94526; Wed, 9 May 2001 22:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3AFA2107.98303274@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 02:03:03 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Erick Kinnee , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences with new dir allocation on FFS? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > > [ resending, with a subject ] > > > OK, I;ve looked and looked and can't seem to figure out how to set > hw.ata.wc to enabled. I've put and a few other things in > /etc/sysctl.conf, the others get set, hw.ata.wc doesn't. You can't > change it by hand either as sysctl tells you it's readonly. Grepping in > /sys/i386/conf has turned up nothing and neither has grepping /boot. > > > Have you tried specifying it in /boot/loader.conf ? > hw.ata.wc="1" That's probably what he meant by grepping /boot. Unfortunately, loader-tunables are hardly ever added to /boot/defaults/loader.conf or loader(8). He should have checked ata(4) instead. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net Caffeine is proof that God hates mornings too To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message