From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 18 10:35:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD99837B40A for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA21637; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:03:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:03:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Douglas Egan Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to set hw.ata.wc In-Reply-To: <3BA77880.91744255@calcon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Douglas Egan wrote: > 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 this is the place because it overrides /boot/defaults/loader.conf > > /boot/loader.conf.local - effective, but am unsure if this file is > unaffected by upgrading. I'm not sure this is "supported" > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message