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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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