From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Oct 22 16:17:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7C337B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cx414341c ([24.177.148.196]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001022231726.IWHY18271.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@cx414341c>; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:17:26 -0700 Message-ID: <001101c03c7e$a32e24b0$020a0a0a@cx414341c> From: "Kelsey Womack" To: "Graham Guttocks" , References: <20001022225104.11606.qmail@web10302.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: help disabling write caching upon bootup Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:20:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" To: 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 > > ____________________________________________________________________________ _ > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message