From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Mar 13 21:55:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.phx.gblx.net (smtp10.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F129837B71A; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:55:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp10.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA81114; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:55:19 -0700 Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp10.phx.gblx.net, id smtpd344mya; Tue Mar 13 22:55:13 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA04683; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:55:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103140555.WAA04683@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 05:55:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Stephen.Byan@quantum.com (Stephen Byan), bright@wintelcom.net ('Alfred Perlstein'), mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob), gibbs@scsiguy.com (Justin T. Gibbs), sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt), oberman@es.net (Kevin Oberman), scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <8821.984501490@critter> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 13, 2001 05:38:10 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >If NT and FreeBSD both support hinting of metadata writes, it's only a > >matter of time before the hardware support appears. > > I have been looking for a long time for a PCI NVRAM card at a reasonable > cost, anyone know of any with a reasonable price ? How much NVRAM do you need? It seems to me that you can get a PCI card to plug a PC-CARD into the back of a regular PC at Fry's for pretty cheap, and that there is no lack of memory cards in the PC-CARD/PCMCIA form factor. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message