D. Rock wrote: > > This is what I also thought. But how do I turn off write caching on IDE > disks. I know how to do on SCSI bit (mode page 8 byte 2 bit 2 clear), but > I have absolutely no clue how this can be achieved on IDE disks. > > I normally turn off write caching on all drives I install. The drive shouldn't > shuffle the carefully sorted file system blocks. >
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