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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2001 02:03:03 -0300
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>
Cc:        Erick Kinnee <erick@kinnee.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Experiences with new dir allocation on FFS?
Message-ID:  <3AFA2107.98303274@newsguy.com>

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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.

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