[ale] Re: Disabling Cache?

[jdonline at gmail.com (J. D.)]

Gregg,

  If it is L2 cache you can usually disable that through the bios.  On
the typical Bios Configuration screen it would be under the Chipset
features section.  It usually makes the system run unbearably slow
though.

I hope this helps,

J. D.

On 7/8/05, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> 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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