From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Oct 23 10:29:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from web10305.mail.yahoo.com (web10305.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3706E37B4C5 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:29:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20001023172907.69094.qmail@web10305.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.165.147.151] by web10305.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:29:07 NZDT Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:29:07 +1300 (NZDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Graham=20Guttocks?= Subject: Re: help disabling write caching upon bootup To: Andre Albsmeier Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andre Albsmeier wrote: > But this is a separate controller, not an onboard controller, right? The PC has 2 motherboard embedded controllers, an Adaptec AIC-7890 (where my disks are attached), and a slower Adaptec AIC-7880. > In the first case you can flash your bios to version 2.57.2 from > adaptec and set the write cache explicitely to disabled there... In my case I guess I'm out of luck then, eh? Graham _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message