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SubjectRe: EIDE Seagate ST31720A: no cache
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Arindum Mukerji wrote:

> I've just checked on the drive in question, ie the Seagate ST31720A, and
> the technical specifications from the company state that the hard drive
> has in fact a 128K cache buffer.
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> >
> > <4>hda: ST310720A, 1626MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=825/64/63

The ATA-2 specifications document 0 in that field as "not specified".
It seems that due to some reason, the drive doesn't want the host to
know the internal buffer size or to depend on a particular cache value.

Gadi

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