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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2001 06:54:04 +0200
From:      Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
To:        Kevin Hui <khui@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Experiencing very slow raw write speeds on /dev/ad1
Message-ID:  <3B7368EC.F27F046D@herbelot.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108091853190.5157-100000@gardiner.cs>

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Kevin Hui wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have installed 2 Maxtor UDMA100 drives in my system, sharing the channel
> ide0.  /dev/ad0 contains all the FreeBSD partitions and ad1 is used as a
> scratch drive (there's nothing on it). Ide1 channel is used for the DVD
> drive (which doesn't support UDMA):
> 
[SNIP]

this is "normal" : 4.3-Release shipped with IDE write-caching disable
(for security reasons)

you can get back write caching with the following command :
sysctl hw.ata.wc=1

	TfH
> 
> -----------------------
> FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
>     jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (1004.52-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x686  Stepping = 6
[SNIP]
-- 
Thierry Herbelot

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