I see that Lenny came to town yesterday. I've been tracking Testing and yesterday doing an update+upgrade gave me about 230 packages to upgrade. All went normally and my system is still purring along happily :-) I did get a warning about hdparm. It said that /dev/hda had Write chaching enabled and this was not a good idea because in the event of a power failure it could cause serious data loss.
Not being one to argue, I dutifully did #hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda and now write-caching is no longer enabled. For my own reassurance, was this the sensible thing to do? TIA, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
