[ale] Disabling Cache?

[shanel at turbocorp.com (Shane Labarthe)]

Greg,

If what you're refering to is the CPU cache, typically this can be 
changed in the BIOS of your mainboard.  It varies in sections, depending 
on the BIOS manufacturer.  Keep in mind that some BIOS manufacturers do 
not include that feature.

Best Regards,
Shane Labarthe

Greg Freemyer wrote:

>I have an old machine that I need to use from time to time.  PIII 700MHz.
>
>It has a unique (within my office) configuration of hardware raid and
>scsi tape that I don't want to replicate right now.
>
>It has been unreliable recently and I just finished running Memtest on
>it.  It runs fine if I have cache disabled, but it runs poorly if I
>have cache enabled (via memtest).
>
>Is there a way to boot Linux with the cache disabled?  (I know it will
>be slow, but I just need to restore one tape.)
>
>I prefer to use SuSE, and I have SuSE boot CDs from 8.0 forward.
>
>Greg
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