From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Apr 6 8:20: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B4037B505 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA11641; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:19:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:19:52 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: John Lengeling Cc: Andrew Heybey , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs on IBM disks slower than Seagate disks? Message-ID: <20000406091952.A11611@panzer.kdm.org> References: <200004051218.IAA09904@stiegl.niksun.com> <20000405182827.A6960@panzer.kdm.org> <38ECA464.97DFEDB3@raccoon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38ECA464.97DFEDB3@raccoon.com>; from johnl@raccoon.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:51:16AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:51:16 -0500, John Lengeling wrote: > > > > > See if write caching is enabled (WCE == 1) in mode page 8. (See the > > camcontrol(8) man page for how to display mode pages.) > > > > Ken > > > > Should it be on or off? What does WCE do? WCE means Write Cache Enabled. I generally have write caching turned on with my disks, but it can be a rather religious issue. You can probably find lots of discussion about it if you search various FreeBSD list archives. (I'm not going to recommend one way or the other.) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message