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.
Thanks,
J.
On 8/8/17 18:40,
jrekins@gmail.com wrote:
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Hi,
On this page:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/wal-reliability.html
... there is a reference to 'atacontrol' on FreeBSD: 'On FreeBSD, IDE drives
can be queried using atacontrol...'
This command was deprecated in FreeBSD 9.0 which was released in January
2012. Here is a link to the relevant man page highlighting its obsolesence:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrol&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE
The 'camcontrol' is the replacement.
Could you supply a new phrasing of that paragraph? Does camcontrol now
handle both IDE and SCSI?
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Peter Eisentraut
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