Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:54:06 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabling write-behind on IDE drives, and SMART Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20050120165105.10d565d8@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <20050120213906.GC67721@decibel.org> References: <20050120213906.GC67721@decibel.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 04:39 PM 20/01/2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>Question one: how do I disable write caching on IDE drives? I know the
>setting is hw.ata.wc=0, but where do I put that? In loader.conf? This is
>FreeBSD 4.10, btw.
Yes, you can put it in there.
>Also, has any thought been given to making the default 0, like it is for
>SCSI devices? I'm honestly surprised and disappointed that the default
>is speed over data integrity.
It has been discussed quite a bit before and for a number of reasons, the
default on was chosen. (google if you want to see the various reasons)
>Question two: is there any support for SMART in FreeBSD?
RELENG_5 with /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/ works really well. But
you need to move to RELENG_5.
---Mike
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6.2.0.14.0.20050120165105.10d565d8>