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Enable write cache on scsi disc drive
I've got four FUJITSU MAP3735NC 73 GB SCSI disc drives connected to an
LSI LOGIC 20320-R U320 scsi controller. I want to enable the write cache on two of the discs. How can I do that unter SuSE Linux 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.104-smp? I found no posibility to enable the discs' cache in the bios of the controller. Thanks, Christian +++++++++++++ boot.msg ++++++++++++++++ 5SCSI subsystem initialized 6Fusion MPT base driver 3.01.03 6Copyright (c) 1999-2004 LSI Logic Corporation 6mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup 6ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator} 6Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.01.03 6scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01032700h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=26 5 Vendor: LSILOGIC Model: 1030 IM Rev: 1000 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 5SCSI device sda: 71553024 512-byte hdwr sectors (36635 MB) 5SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through 6 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 5Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 5 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3735NC Rev: 0108 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 5SCSI device sdb: 143571316 512-byte hdwr sectors (73509 MB) 5SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through 6 sdb: sdb1 5Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 5 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3735NC Rev: 0108 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 5SCSI device sdc: 143571316 512-byte hdwr sectors (73509 MB) 5SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through 6 sdc: sdc1 5Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 5 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3735NC Rev: 0108 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 5SCSI device sdd: 143571316 512-byte hdwr sectors (73509 MB) 5SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back 6 sdd: sdd1 5Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 5 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3735NC Rev: 0108 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 5SCSI device sde: 143571316 512-byte hdwr sectors (73509 MB) 5SCSI device sde: drive cache: write back 6 sde: sde1 5Attached scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 |
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Previously Christian Marx wrote:
I've got four FUJITSU MAP3735NC 73 GB SCSI disc drives connected to an LSI LOGIC 20320-R U320 scsi controller. I want to enable the write cache on two of the discs. How can I do that unter SuSE Linux 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.104-smp? I found no posibility to enable the discs' cache in the bios of the controller. Try scsi-config. In the sub-menu "Cache Control Page" there is a button "Write cache enabled", that should do it. Also note the big, red warning not to turn on write cache, unless you know what you are doing. You might also want to read the relevant section of the man-page. Don't forget to save the info on the device, or it will be gone after the next reset. (Again see man-page for details.) Theoretically you can do all this also with "scsiinfo" on the commandline, but the man-page of scsiinfo says "experts only" and to use scsi-config instead. In Debian scsi-config is in package "scsitools". I have no idea were SuSE stores it. Regards, Arno Thanks, Christian +++++++++++++ boot.msg ++++++++++++++++ 5SCSI subsystem initialized 6Fusion MPT base driver 3.01.03 6Copyright (c) 1999-2004 LSI Logic Corporation 6mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup 6ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator} 6Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.01.03 6scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01032700h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=26 5 Vendor: LSILOGIC Model: 1030 IM Rev: 1000 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 5SCSI device sda: 71553024 512-byte hdwr sectors (36635 MB) 5SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through 6 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 5Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 5 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3735NC Rev: 0108 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 5SCSI device sdb: 143571316 512-byte hdwr sectors (73509 MB) 5SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through 6 sdb: sdb1 5Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 5 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3735NC Rev: 0108 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 5SCSI device sdc: 143571316 512-byte hdwr sectors (73509 MB) 5SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through 6 sdc: sdc1 5Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 5 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3735NC Rev: 0108 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 5SCSI device sdd: 143571316 512-byte hdwr sectors (73509 MB) 5SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back 6 sdd: sdd1 5Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 5 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3735NC Rev: 0108 5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 5SCSI device sde: 143571316 512-byte hdwr sectors (73509 MB) 5SCSI device sde: drive cache: write back 6 sde: sde1 5Attached scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 -- For email address: lastname AT tik DOT ee DOT ethz DOT ch GnuPG: ID:1E25338F FP:0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus |
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Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Christian Marx wrote: I've got four FUJITSU MAP3735NC 73 GB SCSI disc drives connected to an LSI LOGIC 20320-R U320 scsi controller. I want to enable the write cache on two of the discs. How can I do that unter SuSE Linux 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.104-smp? I found no posibility to enable the discs' cache in the bios of the controller. Try scsi-config. In the sub-menu "Cache Control Page" there is a button "Write cache enabled", that should do it. Also note the big, red warning not to turn on write cache, unless you know what you are doing. You might also want to read the relevant section of the man-page. Don't forget to save the info on the device, or it will be gone after the next reset. (Again see man-page for details.) Theoretically you can do all this also with "scsiinfo" on the commandline, but the man-page of scsiinfo says "experts only" and to use scsi-config instead. In Debian scsi-config is in package "scsitools". I have no idea were SuSE stores it. Well thanks for the detailed information. I found scsi-config in the xscsi package. I didn't know that write caching is such a sensitive topic when it comes to scsi disks, so I decided to disable it since I run a software raid-5 on top of those disks. Regards, Christian |
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