Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:42:44 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SGI, XFS and OSS? Message-ID: <000001bea3e3$9f9db890$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <199905212246.RAA69965@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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> My ISSR required knowing if anything such as a large NVRAM was in a > system. I've been thru a number of SGI systems and ever found more than > a modest amount of NVRAM, and that was in a clock chip. It's not particularly hard to design a board with a good-sized chunk of battery-backed static RAM. How much of a performance difference would a PCI card with a 4Mb buffer make? But I think that what you really need is the battery-backed RAM to be built into the hard drive controller or between the controller and the drive. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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