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authorRobert Haas2011-10-10 17:21:35 +0000
committerRobert Haas2011-10-10 17:22:41 +0000
commit262d7f8bacfbbb01d05cab5b01d8a8422c38b9e3 (patch)
tree3a4e57e31f28da36ff280e9e59078f1b8e18cbd6
parentbc397244c80a0f60d14f0bb7286776afc5e039d8 (diff)
Improve documentation of how to fiddle with SCSI drives on FreeBSD.
Per suggestions from Achilleas Mantzios and Greg Smith.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
index 4d111903a76..ff825eca3b8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
@@ -87,7 +87,9 @@
On <productname>FreeBSD</>, IDE drives can be queried using
<command>atacontrol</command> and write caching turned off using
<literal>hw.ata.wc=0</> in <filename>/boot/loader.conf</>;
- SCSI drives use <command>sdparm</command>.
+ SCSI drives can be queried using <command>camcontrol identify</command>,
+ and the write cache both queried and changed using
+ <command>sdparm</command> when available.
</para>
</listitem>