Re: hdparm question
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:58 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I have postgresql running on an ide type system with a 300GB hard drive.
> For some reason the command hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda fails with error0x04 so
> drive cacheing can't be turned off by hdparm on this type of drive so far
> as I now know. There is all of that lvm stuff on the system running so
> it's possible hdparm and lvm might not like each other all that much and
> in my case generate this error. That or there's something else I need to
> do.
What kind of hard drive is it? And why are you trying to turn of the
cache?
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