check out hdparm -W for IDE drives...  By default, however, I think it's
turned off.  That's the IDE hardware write caching... I don't think Linux
does software write caching.  The closest thing to that is the I/O
buffering, and when you call fflush everything's supposed to be written.

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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Teodor Iacob wrote:

> Hello,
>   Is there any way to disable write caching for disks in kernel? I just
> want read caching. That's because I have a computer somewhere that crashes
> kinda often because of power outages :)
> 
> 
>  P.S. There is noting wrong with the eql ( I wrote an e-mail a while ago
> ), actually it works best :) ...
> 
> 
> Teo
> 
> 
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