On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:09:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:23:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > > Did these users have their disk's write caches set to write-through
> > > > mode rather than write-back mode?  NetBSD doesn't do this by default,
> > > > you have to add code to /etc/rc.local.
> > > 
> > > What code? How one can change the mode?
> > 
> > dkctl wd0 setcache r
> 
> The above seems not just to change write policy, but switch the write cache
> off completely

No, it turns it from write-back to write-through. The hardware can't work
without a write cache (and ATA doesn't offer other modes anyway).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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