>Justin T. Gibbs writes:
>
>> Many versions of the Barricuda ship with the write cache disabled since
>> Seagate cannot guarantee that all data in the cache will hit the disk in
>> the event of a loss of power.  You can enable it by tweaking mode page
>> 8 of your drive.
>
>Okay, I'll bite: how does an imbecile such as myself "tweak mode page 8"
>of my drive? Do you have a pointer to Seagate documentation or
>something?
>
>I figure if we ever get these machines on a UPS, we may as well turn on
>the cache...

Does NetBSD have the scsi(8) utility?  That's how you would do it with
FreeBSD.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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