Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 23:21:13 +0100 From: se@freebsd.org (Stefan Esser) To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies), freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ccd considerations Message-ID: <Mutt.19961205232113.se@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961205134213.1925J-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>; from Jaye Mathisen on Dec 5, 1996 13:43:28 -0800 References: <199612050844.JAA17324@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <Pine.NEB.3.95.961205134213.1925J-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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On Dec 5, mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) wrote: > > I would think that you would have to have some pretty high load to require > 2 controllers. Not if the drives used have only very small caches. Then you may have one drive's buffer overflow before the other one disconnects for the first time ... (The low end SCSI drives now come with only 128KB of static RAM, some 30% of which are used by the drive's firmware and are not available for data caching and read ahead. I just don't understand why Quantum bothered to support Tagged Command Queues on such a drive (the Fireball TM), with some 90KB of RAM to hold data recently read, to be written and possibly read-ahead ... Regards, STefan
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