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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:06:13 +0000
From:      Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA
Message-ID:  <E14d96b-000CkE-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3AAF4DA0.C8DA9485@paradise.net.nz>

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> What doesn't appear to have been mentioned is how exactly do we turn off
> write caching on SCSI drives. From poking around the best I could work
> out was to run 'camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x08 -e -P 3' and set WCE to
> 0 where 0x08 comes from /usr/share/misc/scsi_modes.

...and on a related note, how do you do it on SCSI drives that are
hnaging off the back of a RAID controller, where camcontrol doesnt
seem to be useable (unless I've got the wrong end of the stick completely)

]-pete.

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