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Date:      Sun, 8 Oct 95 10:15 PDT
From:      pete@puffin.pelican.com (Pete Carah)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VLB Disk Controllers
Message-ID:  <m0t1zJi-0000ReC@puffin.pelican.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510080916.TAA26226@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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In article <199510080916.TAA26226@godzilla.zeta.org.au> you write:
.....
>No, the program is supposed to be transferring data out of the drive's
>cache, so its speed should be independent of the drive position unless
>the cache is smaller than 8K or is otherwise braindamaged.  Apparently
>the seacrates' caches are braindamaged :-).  They show that SGI SCSI is
>6 times slower than slow IDE :-).

Now that rings a bell; IRIX 3 wanted the drive cache turned off and
I think this drive was left over from then...  Don't have a scsi utility
handy on that machine, though, to check (we use one on a mac to set
code pages :-)

-- Pete



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