[ale] Disabling Cache?

[J o n K e t t e n h o f e n]

Just my 2 cents worth:

I have an ASUS P3B-F with an 850MHz Piii and the BIOS allows
disabling the Level 1 and Level 2 caches each individually.
You can test the effectiveness of this with memtest.



>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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>Greg Freemyer
>The Norcross Group
>Forensics for the 21st Century
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