solved On 12/8/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
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