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commit    262d7f8bacfbbb01d05cab5b01d8a8422c38b9e3
Author:   Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date:     Mon Oct 10 17:21:35 2011 +0000
First released in: 9.2.0, 9.1.2

    Improve documentation of how to fiddle with SCSI drives on FreeBSD.
    
    Per suggestions from Achilleas Mantzios and Greg Smith.


 doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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>
 


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