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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 10:18:13 -0700
From:      Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        Ed Hudson <elh@spnet.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Subject:   Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20010524101813.A563@ted.isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010524004057.V55532-100000@achilles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:48:02AM -0500
References:  <3B0C9DBB.35724C09@spnet.com> <20010524004057.V55532-100000@achilles.silby.com>

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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:48:02AM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> Write caching is now off by default.  man ata to see how to turn it back
> on.

Ummmm.  I setting hw.ata.wc=1 and got:

ted:~$ sudo sysctl -w hw.ata.wc=1
sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.wc' is read only

I'm assuming that this is because my controller doesn't support write
caching.  Can anyone confirm this?  If that's why the oid is
read-only, a one-liner in the ata man page (that I'm happy to write)
would be a good thing.

Here's what I hope is the relevant stuff from dmesg:

ted:~$ dmesg | egrep '^(ata|a[cd])'
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0x10a0-0x10af at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ad0: 19609MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX20.5> [39842/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <CRD-8400B> at ata1-master using PIO4
acd1: CD-RW <CD-RW CRX100E> at ata1-slave using PIO4

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