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. -- I start many things but I have yet to finish a single one. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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