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Douglas Gilbert wrote:

> You may like to check that Write Cache Enable is on with:
> 'sdparm --get=WCE /dev/sdd'.

Yeah, yeah!  Works fine once I toggled the WCE to 1.  Writing
flies at 70MB/s, which is extremely good for those desktop-grade
disks (Seagate Barracuda SATA 250GB @7200RPM).

Thank you very much!

But... who do you think I should bug to make this the system
default?  Does write caching need to be enabled by the driver
itself, in the SCSI layer or perhaps by the distro initscripts?

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   // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
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