From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 18 9:38:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from calcon.calcon.net (calcon.net [63.149.52.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA66E37B409 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from calcon.net (vpn1.calcon.net [63.149.52.253]) by calcon.calcon.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8IGbk526530 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:37:46 -0500 Message-ID: <3BA77880.91744255@calcon.net> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:38:24 -0500 From: Douglas Egan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; NetBSD 1.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: where to set hw.ata.wc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to run with 'soft updates' on ATA-100 Western Digital drives, so I want to make sure that hw.ata.wc="0" I am looking for the definitive solution for modifying this sysctl value. Previous threads talked about a couple of places: /etc/sysctl.conf - since it is read only value, it has been said by the time it gets here it is too late. I have verified that this has no effect. /boot/loader.conf - didn't try, but upgrading OS might overwrite file /boot/loader.conf.local - effective, but am unsure if this file is unaffected by upgrading. It seems /boot/loader.conf.local is the place, but I would like to know for sure. Thanks, Doug Egan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message