Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:20:16 -0700 From: "Kelsey Womack" <kelseywomack@home.com> To: "Graham Guttocks" <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz>, <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: help disabling write caching upon bootup Message-ID: <001101c03c7e$a32e24b0$020a0a0a@cx414341c> References: <20001022225104.11606.qmail@web10302.mail.yahoo.com>
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Graham,
What scsi controller card do you use? I had this problem with the
Adaptec 29160, with Seagate 9 gig drives myself... please let me know.
-Kels
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Guttocks" <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz>
To: <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 3:51 PM
Subject: help disabling write caching upon bootup
> On my 4.1.1-RELEASE system, I was having problems with the system
> locking up when my seagate scsi drives underwent heavy I/O. After
> searching through this list, I decided to try disabling write caching
> on the drives, and it worked like a charm.
>
> The command "camcontrol modepage -v -n da -u 0 -m 0x8 -e" brings me
> into an editor where I can edit the WCE variable and turn it off.
>
> However, each time I reboot the system, I have to repeat this. Is
> there
> an easy way to handle this automatically every time the system boots?
>
> Regards,
> Graham
>
>
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