From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 21 16:42:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980E715024 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 16:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 21 May 1999 16:42:44 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "David Kelly" Cc: Subject: RE: SGI, XFS and OSS? Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:42:44 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bea3e3$9f9db890$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <199905212246.RAA69965@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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