From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 17:28: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from users.icubed.com (users.icubed.com [208.22.34.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C66DB37B401 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:28:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cwaiken@icubed.com) Received: from localhost (cwaiken@localhost) by users.icubed.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA46330; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:45:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: users.icubed.com: cwaiken owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:45:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" To: Jim couch Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: sysctl variable hw.ata.wc In-Reply-To: <01062415502101.00699@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Jim couch wrote: :)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?? Jim, I just found out myself that the default value of hw.ata.wc=0. As root edit the /boot/default/loader.conf file and add hw.ata.wc="1" . Then the value will be set at each boot. As long as the value is "0" my machine is a "dog". to verify the setting after a boot, issue: sysctl -a | grep ata -- -=[cwa]=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message