Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:57:24 -0500 From: "Steven Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_Fax=E9r?= <gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se>, Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Performance of -current vs -stable Message-ID: <20020212021254.B2CAB9F427@okeeffe.bestweb.net>
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> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:08:07 +0100 > Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > There is another common source of confusion: If anybody has IDE > > > disks, write-caching is enabled by default in -stable, but disabled > > > in -current. > > > > I don't think that is true anymore. -stable has WC enabled as well. > > -STABLE has it enabled indeed, but -CURRENT does not (afaik). > Read what he said. :-) I believe that hw.ata.wc is set to '0' by default. Easily correctible either by adding 'hw.ata.wc="1"' into your /boot/loader.conf or tweaking the source in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c (the former being the preferred method of course). -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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