El Nino wrote: >Dear friends, > >how to disable disk write caching on scsi & ide harddisks? > >-- >... >"The future lies ahead." > _______________________ >< Have you mooed today? > > ---------------------------------------- > \ ^__^ > \ (oo) \_______ > (__) \ )\/\ > | |-----w | > | | | | > >2.6.14-gentoo-r2-sinhalese-r1.0 >(((o)))~--~--~--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Proud to be a Sinhalese. >SINHALESE ARE GENIUSES OF IRRIGATION >http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~sydney/sinhales.htm > > > > -W Disable/enable the IDE drive's write-caching feature > (default state is undeterminable; manu- > facturer/model specific).
That from man hdparm. As old Elmer Fudd says, be veeeeeerrrry careful. O_O Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- [email protected] mailing list
