OT - Journaling File Systems?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Apr 27 21:05:12 UTC 2004


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 03:50:28PM -0500, Edwards, Scott (MED, Kelly IT Resouces) wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately the drive I have right now is a Serial ATA so FC2
> treats it as a SCSI drive and hdparm won't let me change the
> write cache.  I'm trying to dig up a regular IDE drive to test
> it on.  Is there any way to change it on a SCSI drive?

Some of the scsi generic tools using /dev/sg can set the mode page
bits that control caching. Nothing Fedora ships however. Also some scsi
controllers can set it at bios time.





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