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Re: disabling write cache on SATA drives

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Subject: Re: disabling write cache on SATA drives
From: "Russell Howe" <rhowe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:34:56 +0000
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:19:51PM -0800, Christian Rice wrote:
> We all know that disabling write cache on drives with no battery backup 
> is a good thing, and we all know how to do it on  your average IDE drive 
> (hdparm -W0 /dev/hda).
> 
> But what about on SATA disks?

Is blktool the New(tm) way to do this?

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Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
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