Subject: Re: lmbench disk figures on SCSI vs. IDE
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: John S. Dyson <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/06/1997 17:24:22
>
> > > Does NetBSD have the scsi(8) utility? That's how you would do it with
> > > FreeBSD.
> >
> >Not yet... one problem is that the command syntax sort of sucks...
>
> At least it's more functional than the current utility (which doesn't
> exist :-( )
>
Actually to change the caching parameters, it is very easy:
scsi -f /dev/rsd0 -m 8 -e
or somesuch allows you to edit the mode page similar to
vipw. It isn't ideal, but works nicely. It does have
some more arcane capabilities, but they aren't generally
necessary for what is being talked about here.
John
dyson@freebsd.org