On 11 October 2010 23:44, Jochen Schulz <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > [ I guess Henrique's interpretation of the problem is better than mine, > I just wanted to follow-up on this specific question. ] >> How would I know? > > $ dmesg | grep "Write cache" > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support > DPO or FUA > > I don't whether disabling this would stress the CF card more or less, > but you should experience less filesystem corruption after a crash. > AFAICT you need hdparm to disable it, though.
I just sorted this out not ten seconds ago :) hdparm -W 0 /dev/sda ...did the trick (and yes, it was on). I'm hoping to find the call that makes avahi trigger the crash, so I can do it a little more simply. Cheers, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimisam7050vdmzpjujc7y3oocqc4gso6ztug...@mail.gmail.com