Improve documentation of how to fiddle with SCSI drives on FreeBSD.

Per suggestions from Achilleas Mantzios and Greg Smith.
14 years ago · e8bb5f7245
parent 322019ed2e
commit e8bb5f7245
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--- a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
@ -87,7 +87,9 @@
        On <productname>FreeBSD</>, IDE drives can be queried using
        <command>atacontrol</command> and write caching turned off using
        <literal>hw.ata.wc=0</> in <filename>/boot/loader.conf</>;
-        SCSI drives use <command>sdparm</command>.
+        SCSI drives can be queried using <command>camcontrol identify</command>,
+        and the write cache both queried and changed using
+        <command>sdparm</command> when available.
      </para>
    </listitem>