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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