On 5/26/06, Steve Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Jeff Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-25 22:53]:
>>Same spindle, but 8x as fast as the 10k SCSI disks.
>
> guess in the dark: the scsi drives have the write cache disabled, the
> ide drives enabled. at least that tends to be what the defaults are.
>
As a fellow SCSI user on sparc64, I've been looking high and low (man
pages, google, /usr/src/sys, etc) on how to enable write cache or tagged
command queuing, if either is safe enough to use, on my Ultra-2's SCSI
drives. Is it using the scsi(8) command? I looked at
/usr/share/misc/scsi_modes, but am getting lost in the listing of
IOCTLs, and personally I can't figure out what parameters to pass to the
drives.
Steve Schaller
I too would be very interested in seeing more scsi(8) examples than
are available in the manpage. Anybody?
