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Subject: Re: SATA disk problem
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Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> writes:

> i have 2 identical drives in my machine.

[snip]

> HOW to enable write cache on second drive?

According to "man 4 ata", there is a loader tunable "hw.ata.wc" which
does this.  However, it supposedly defaults to enabled, and applies to
all drives.