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 * I have a Quantum Atlas disk drive that appears to 
 * be doing some form of delayed write optimization.
 * Is there any OS command or mode page change that can
 * turn it off?

You mean to turn off write caching?  I *think* it's the "WCE" (write
cache enable) bit on modepage 8.

You can edit it by the command

  camcontrol modepage -e -m 8 /dev/pass0

(omit the "-e" to just show the values).

Satoshi


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