Jonathan Kaye:
>
> Not being one to argue, I dutifully did #hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda and now
> write-caching is no longer enabled. For my own reassurance, was this the
> sensible thing to do?
You lose some write performance, but apart from that it doesn't hurt and
a lot of people think it is a good idea.
But please note that this setting probably doesn't survive reboots so if
you want to make it permanent you have to set it in /etc/hdparm.conf.
J.
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