Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:39:25 +0100 (MET) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: 2.2.x fails to identify hard disk buffer? |
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From: Andrea Ferraris <ferraris@biella.alpcom.it>
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Fujitsu hard disk, model MHC2040AT. Linux says that the disk has 0KB > > cache, Fujitsu says it has a 512KB buffer. What's going on here? > > Linux is reporting what the drive tells it.
"hda: FUJITSU MPB3032ATU, 3093MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=785/128/63, UDMA" my kernel says at boot time.
I have the same problem since years (in 2.0.xx too), but I blindly trust in Linux (the salesman didn't told me that the disk had some cache and he told my that it was UDMA), so I thought that I got a bad hard disk drive (it was really cheap, maybe too much cheap and anyway it works).
But it seems to me that your reply maybe it's a bit too much "political":
Political? The kernel sends an identify drive command, the drive reports, and the kernel prints what the drive reports. In this particular case this field is zero. No politics involved.
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