02-20-2002
Hard Disk parameters (caching/dma)
Linux uses hdparm to set these parameters, my question is: what tool uses BSD systems (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)? There is another thing which FreeBSD implements on their filesystems: softupdates. If I forgot to enable this option when I partitioned the disk, how could I enable it at a later time?
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AGE(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual AGE(4)
NAME
age -- Attansic L1 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
age* at pci?
atphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The age driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the Attansic L1 Ethernet chipset.
The age driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN tag insertion and stripping.
The following media types are supported:
autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
10baseT Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseT Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try
ifconfig <device> media. For example, ifconfig age0 media.
SEE ALSO
arp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The age device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.5. It was then ported to NetBSD 5.1.
AUTHORS
The age driver was written by Pyun YongHyeon for FreeBSD, ported to OpenBSD by Kevin Lo <kevlo@OpenBSD.org> then ported to NetBSD by
Christoph Egger <cegger@NetBSD.org>.
BSD
May 5, 2009 BSD