Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm and write caching

On Monday 28 March 2011 09:11:51 Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello all, > > Running a box with 2x1TB software raid disks. > A while back I read up about disk write caching and it's pros/cons. > > I then decided to disable it on my box. > Edited /etc/conf.d/hdparm and added -W0 for sata_all_args. >

[gentoo-user] hdparm and write caching

Hello all, Running a box with 2x1TB software raid disks. A while back I read up about disk write caching and it's pros/cons. I then decided to disable it on my box. Edited /etc/conf.d/hdparm and added -W0 for sata_all_args. And added it to the default runlevel. It works, on bootup it turns off w