hw.ata.wc=0

From: Arne (arne_woerner_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/01/04

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    I observed some inconsistencies after I set hw.ata.wc to zero (0):

    1. atacontrol does not confirm that write caching is disabled.

    2. The write speed on a freshly boot system increases by a factor of 5-6 after
    a long read.

    I would like to know, if somebody here has experiences with turning off the
    write cache of ata devices (how to turn off / how much is performance effected
    by the hard disc write cache).

    Thank you.

    I already posted this to freebsd-fs@freebsd.org but they did not know so much
    about this matter.

    -Arne

            
                    
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