Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:19:52 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com> Cc: Andrew Heybey <ath@niksun.com>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs on IBM disks slower than Seagate disks? Message-ID: <20000406091952.A11611@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <38ECA464.97DFEDB3@raccoon.com>; from johnl@raccoon.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:51:16AM -0500 References: <200004051218.IAA09904@stiegl.niksun.com> <20000405182827.A6960@panzer.kdm.org> <38ECA464.97DFEDB3@raccoon.com>
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:51:16 -0500, John Lengeling wrote: > > > > > See if write caching is enabled (WCE == 1) in mode page 8. (See the > > camcontrol(8) man page for how to display mode pages.) > > > > Ken > > > > Should it be on or off? What does WCE do? WCE means Write Cache Enabled. I generally have write caching turned on with my disks, but it can be a rather religious issue. You can probably find lots of discussion about it if you search various FreeBSD list archives. (I'm not going to recommend one way or the other.) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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