Justin T. Gibbs writes:

> Many versions of the Barricuda ship with the write cache disabled since
> Seagate cannot guarantee that all data in the cache will hit the disk in
> the event of a loss of power.  You can enable it by tweaking mode page
> 8 of your drive.

Okay, I'll bite: how does an imbecile such as myself "tweak mode page 8"
of my drive? Do you have a pointer to Seagate documentation or
something?

I figure if we ever get these machines on a UPS, we may as well turn on
the cache...