Re: [DOCS] The reference to 'atacontrol' on FreeBSD is outdated.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 2:12 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 10:47:00PM +0100, John Ekins wrote:
> > Sure. Camcontrol does indeed cover IDE, SCSI and SAS drives.
> >
> > Replace this line:
> > On FreeBSD, IDE drives can be queried using atacontrol...
> >
> > With this:
> > On FreeBSD, IDE drives can be queried using camcontrol identify...
> >
> > In other words, the query is the same as for SCSI drives. For verification this
> > is what the output looks like:
> >
> > root(at)bsd11desk:/home/jre # camcontrol identify 0:0:0 | egrep "Feature|write
> > cache"
> > Feature Support Enabled Value Vendor
> > write cache yes yes
> >
> > I appreciate the Postgresql docs are not meant to be FreeBSD tutorials.
>
> I know this email is six years old, but I have applied this fix to all
> supported Postgres versions. A huge apology for this delay.

It's funny that we discuss IDE drives at all. They stopped being
manufactured a decade ago and are not supported by modern chipsets or
boards etc[1]. I've been meaning to do something about that, but I
didn't have enough round tuits to research what to write about current
storage technologies... but also in the case of FreeBSD, it doesn't
let you turn the write cache on and off with nvmecontrol yet, but
someone has a relevant patch out (D32700) so I was also waiting for
that to go somewhere before writing in...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#Primacy_and_obsolescence