Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Nov 1998 00:30:12 -0800 (PST) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | [2.1.12X] How to disable write-cache? |
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Hello,
It has become a little too dangerous for me to test 2.1 kernels; I have had several sudden, silent hangs. The latest hang caused Big Damage(tm) to one of my filesystems. Is there a way to lesson the risk by disabling write-cacheing? I could write a script that does "sync" forever with a sleep in-between. But if I could disable write-cacheing I would think my odds of a safe recovery are highest. FWIW, my system is Alpha (Avanti) booting Avanti kernel 2.1.124. No logs. The last crash happened after about 20 good days of uptime. I'm trying hard to build 2.1.128 now.
thanks, -bp -- B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org UNIX Software Engineer . http://www.terran.org/~bryan Member since 1.1.59 . finger:bryan@earth.terran.org MOTM: Waiting for the DSL to go in :/
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