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El Nino wrote: |
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>Dear friends, |
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>how to disable disk write caching on scsi & ide harddisks? |
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>2.6.14-gentoo-r2-sinhalese-r1.0 |
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>Proud to be a Sinhalese. |
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>http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~sydney/sinhales.htm |
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> -W Disable/enable the IDE drive's write-caching feature |
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> (default state is undeterminable; manu- |
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> facturer/model specific). |
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That from man hdparm. As old Elmer Fudd says, be veeeeeerrrry careful. O_O |
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Dale |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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I have four rigs: |
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1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. |
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2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. |
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3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. |
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4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. |
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All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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