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Date:      Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:21:57 +0200
From:      "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
To:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ahci.ko in RELENG_8_2, what about atacontrol cap?
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Hi, all,

Am 03.04.2011 um 15:44 schrieb Patrick M. Hausen:
> Am 03.04.2011 um 15:36 schrieb Alexander Motin:
>> I've noticed that some RAID BIOS'es disable write cache on their =
disks. ata(4) enabled cache in such cases, but CAM doesn't now. I'll =
take care of it for ATA. For now you can manage it via `camcontrol cmd`.
>=20
> I understand. So probably my disks' WC is set to off in the
> system BIOS setup - wich is changed upon boot by ata, but
> not by ahci/cam.

I changed the setting in the BIOS setup to "write cache enabled"
and presto - write cache with ahci.

Thanks for the hints,
Patrick
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