If your disks are SATA, it's possible that even though Solaris tries to 
disable the write cache, your SATA controller ignores the request. 
These are the rumors I've heard anyway.

Tom, do you know how to enable the write cache for a SATA disk?

David

Josh Meyer wrote:
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> Yes, I suspect I'm not comparing apples-to-apples.  My disks are SATA.  
> The cache command in "format -e" seems to only work with SCSI drives.  
> Am I out of luck?
> 
> Josh
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