From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 22 5: 4: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9D110F1F for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 05:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15939; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 05:02:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA10351; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 05:02:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA28797; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 05:02:31 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199902221302.FAA28797@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 05:02:31 -0800 In-Reply-To: "Kenneth D. Merry" "Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N" (Feb 19, 2:15pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: "Kenneth D. Merry" , paulz@trantor.xs4all.nl (Paul van der Zwan) Subject: Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Feb 19, 2:15pm, "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: } Subject: Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N } } The Write Cache Enable (WCE) bit is in mode page 8. To check it: } } camcontrol modepage -n da -u 1 -v -m 8 } } To edit the mode page: } } camcontrol modepage -n da -u 1 -v -m 8 -e To make this change permanent, you need to do camcontrol modepage -n da -u 1 -v -m 8 -e -P 3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message