From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 8: 1:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f176.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.31.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBFB637B406; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:01:22 -0700 Received: from 212.30.183.204 by pv1fd.pav1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:01:21 GMT X-Originating-IP: [212.30.183.204] From: "Magdalinin Kirill" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: turning off write cache on SCSI drive Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:01:21 +0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Oct 2001 15:01:22.0070 (UTC) FILETIME=[6E0DBB60:01C14CE5] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, some mail posts on softupdates says that turning off write cache is prerequisite for it. How can I accomplish it on freebsd? As far as I know there is camcontrol utility, but it's usage is quite difficult for me to understand. I stuck the drive into another box and turned off write cache using raid controler bios setup, but it's uclear if this setting is still active. The other way I can think of it is turning it off under Win2K. Yet how can I check write cache status under FreeBSD? thanks, Kirill Magdalinin bsdforumen@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message