Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:42:55 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz> Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help disabling write caching upon bootup Message-ID: <20001023194255.B8582@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <20001023172907.69094.qmail@web10305.mail.yahoo.com>; from graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 06:29:07AM %2B1300 References: <20001023172907.69094.qmail@web10305.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 24-Oct-2000 at 06:29:07 +1300, Graham Guttocks wrote: > Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> 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? I see. For my Asus P2B-LS the bios update included a SCSI bios version (2.20) that got the feature. Maybe you should look on the motherboards manufacturers website if they got something newer.. -Andre > > Graham > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs > - Join a club or build your own! -- FreeBSD: We eat penguins for breakfast To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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