Disable read/write caching to disk?

Bjoern Koenig bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu May 26 10:44:40 PDT 2005


Bjoern Koenig wrote:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to disable all read and write caching to a disk?
> 
> You can disable write the cache by adding the line
> 
>   hw.ata.wc="0"

I assumed that you use ATA. If you use SCSI devices then read at least 
the manpages da(4) and camcontrol(8).

Björn




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