Re: hdparm question

2007-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 18:13 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If memory serves this might be a western digital drive. postgresql > recommends disabling drive cacheing if it's on when it's installed or > upgraded so that if the data base is in use and a power failure happens > you don't loose the da

Re: hdparm question

2007-04-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
If memory serves this might be a western digital drive. postgresql recommends disabling drive cacheing if it's on when it's installed or upgraded so that if the data base is in use and a power failure happens you don't loose the data in the cache that didn't manage to get saved to disk before

Re: hdparm question

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:58 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have postgresql running on an ide type system with a 300GB hard drive. > For some reason the command hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda fails with error0x04 so > drive cacheing can't be turned off by hdparm on this type of drive so far > as I now kno

hdparm question

2007-04-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have postgresql running on an ide type system with a 300GB hard drive. For some reason the command hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda fails with error0x04 so drive cacheing can't be turned off by hdparm on this type of drive so far as I now know. There is all of that lvm stuff on the system running so it'