Re: atacontrol not reflecting disabled write cache (or rogue hdd?)

From: Soeren Schmidt <sos_at_spider.deepcore.dk>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:47:05 +0200 (CEST)
It seems Michael Nottebrock wrote:
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> I've recently changed hw.ata.wc to 0 (via loader.conf.local) on two systems 
> and on both systems atacontrol cap still says write cache supported & enabled 
> (sysctl confirms the setting being 0). One system is 5.0-RELEASE, the other 
> 4.8-RC.
> 
> Is atacontrol lying or do the drives insist on write caching?

I'd say the drives insists on it beeing on...

-Søren
Received on Wed Apr 23 2003 - 20:47:09 UTC

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