From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: John Ekins <jrekins@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [DOCS] The reference to 'atacontrol' on FreeBSD is outdated.
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:11:55 -0500
Message-ID: <ZV1VW0T5WhAYzXNR@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1F09343-9031-4351-9837-1C5FA8055A7E@gmail.com>
References: <20170808224017.8424.69170@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
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On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 10:47:00PM +0100, John Ekins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sure. Camcontrol does indeed cover IDE, SCSI and SAS drives.
>
> Replace this line:
> On FreeBSD, IDE drives can be queried using atacontrol...
>
> With this:
> On FreeBSD, IDE drives can be queried using camcontrol identify...
>
> In other words, the query is the same as for SCSI drives. For verification this
> is what the output looks like:
>
> root@bsd11desk:/home/jre # camcontrol identify 0:0:0 | egrep "Feature|write
> cache"
> Feature Support Enabled Value Vendor
> write cache yes yes
>
> I appreciate the Postgresql docs are not meant to be FreeBSD tutorials.
I know this email is six years old, but I have applied this fix to all
supported Postgres versions. A huge apology for this delay.
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