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<title>Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log</title>

<application>atacontrol</>. (For SCSI disks use <ulink

url="http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html"><application>sdparm</></ulink>

to turn off <literal>WCE</>.) On <productname>Windows</> write caching is

controlled by <literal>My Computer\Open\{select disk

disabled by unchecking <literal>My Computer\Open\{select disk

drive}\Properties\Hardware\Properties\Policies\Enable write caching on

the disk</>.

</para>