User1: Hey, can someone tell me how to disable Write Caching on my External USB Hard Drive in Ubuntu? Also will this disable it locally on my machine, or will it affect the external HDD such that wherever I connect it write caching will be disabled?
User2: lordjj
User1: Hey whatsup
User2: what do you need again ?
User1: I just bought an external Seagate 1TB usb hard drive
User2: ok
User1: I read that disabling write caching would be safer, to avoid corrupted files in case of power out or sudden removal
User1: But its file system is NTFS, and I read NTFS doean't have that problem; that connecting it to a windows system and running diskcheck would fix any problems
User1: But I don't know, so far I've been told by some that you can disable write caching on it, and by others that I can not
User2: not always
User2: I was talking about the checkdisk
User1: Well is it possible to disable write cache on an NTFS drive?
User2: from windows yes
User1: By changing the drives policies right?
User1: Does that apply to the drive? Or just in the Windows system?
User1: I mean when I connect the drive to another system will write cache be disabled?
User2: in windows ?
User2: you just to go to the hmm what's it called where you see your installed drivers
User1: Yeah driver manager
User2: yea, and right click on your hard drive
User1: Bas my question is will it change settings in the actual drive?
User2: should be there somewhere
User1: I mean when I connect the drive to another PC with Ubuntu, will write cache be disabled?
User2: I'm not sure what write cache is, cause GNU/Linux works differently
User1: hm, well ok, in LInux, how is data copied onto a drive? Directly? Or is it stored first in cache then written to the drive?
User1: (as in windows)
User2: actually
User2: you need to read this
User2: lordjj, you have to differentiate between software based cache and hardware one
User3: hi Armageddon
User2: all hardware have cache, you can't disable that
User2: compengi, sup
User3: sick like shit
User2: lordjj, you need to read this http://www.jasonbrome.com/blog/archives/2004/04/03/writecache_enabled.html
User2: compengi, sorry to hear
User3: don't worry
User2: I'm not
User3: i'm cooking chicken soup
User2: you can rot in hell
User2: :p
User3: lol
User2: lemme make cooffee
User3: ok
User3: do you have everything installed on gentoo?
User2: compengi, I had to reinstall gentoo
User3: you mean to recompile world?
User2: no I mean reinstall gentoo
User3: oh
User3: what was wrong?
User2: nothing from my part
User2: bad package that went wrong
User2: and the most important package EVER
User2: glibc :p
User3: lol
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