Per suggestions from Achilleas Mantzios and Greg Smith.
On <productname>FreeBSD</>, IDE drives can be queried using
<command>atacontrol</command> and write caching turned off using
<literal>hw.ata.wc=0</> in <filename>/boot/loader.conf</>;
- SCSI drives use <command>sdparm</command>.
+ SCSI drives can be queried using <command>camcontrol identify</command>,
+ and the write cache both queried and changed using
+ <command>sdparm</command> when available.
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