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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43:11PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:

[ snip ]

> Any idea what happened to the sysctl?  Is there some other method to 
> verify the loader tunable took (other than testing the throughput)?

Boot with -v.  If the loader tunable took effect, you should see
"Enabling SATA WC on phy " instead of "Disabling SATA ..."

Regards,

Gary