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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Don Dupuis <dondster@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libata and Drive Write Cache Disable
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:11:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4550BE54.7060508@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <632b79000611060948v267bd33ahf1ff585cf4de9fcc@mail.gmail.com>

Don Dupuis wrote:
> When will this be supported in libata. I have drives attached to a
> AHCI controller and want to turn drive write cache OFF. Sdparm will
> not allow me to do so. Any work-arounds or patches would be greatly
> appreciated. I am also using kernel 2.6.18.

hdparm -W0 /dev/sda

It works just fine.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-07 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-06 17:48 Libata and Drive Write Cache Disable Don Dupuis
2006-11-07 17:11 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-11-07 17:56   ` Don Dupuis

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