Henning Brauer wrote: > * Jeff Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-25 22:53]: >>Same spindle, but 8x as fast as the 10k SCSI disks. > > guess in the dark: the scsi drives have the write cache disabled, the > ide drives enabled. at least that tends to be what the defaults are. >
As a fellow SCSI user on sparc64, I've been looking high and low (man pages, google, /usr/src/sys, etc) on how to enable write cache or tagged command queuing, if either is safe enough to use, on my Ultra-2's SCSI drives. Is it using the scsi(8) command? I looked at /usr/share/misc/scsi_modes, but am getting lost in the listing of IOCTLs, and personally I can't figure out what parameters to pass to the drives. Steve Schaller
