Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 1997 14:00:40 +0400 (IDT) | From | Gadi Oxman <> | Subject | Re: EIDE Seagate ST31720A: no cache |
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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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