From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue May 7 06:03:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA05179 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 06:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.com (ip91-max1-fitch.zipnet.net [199.232.245.91]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA05170 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 06:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA24135; Tue, 7 May 1996 09:06:27 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199605071306.JAA24135@hda.com> Subject: Re: Buffered Writes? To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 09:06:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hsu@clinet.fi, hdalog@zipnet.net, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605050520.WAA01785@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 4, 96 10:20:57 pm Reply-to: hdalog@zipnet.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ... The mode pages to get them > to write cache are vendor specific and without the vendors manual for the > drive your going to have a very hard time to get it turned on. Take a look at "8.1.6 Data Cache" and "8.3.3.1 Caching Page" of the SCSI II spec. -- Temporarily via "hdalog@zipnet.net"... Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267