On January 6, you wrote:
> 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?

  And further...would one have to do this again after power-cycling
the drive?

                               -Dave McGuire
                                mcguire@neurotica.com