Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: EIDE Seagate ST31720A: no cache | Date | Sat, 19 Jul 1997 15:31:08 -0400 | From | Steve Kump <> |
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> 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. > > I got this from the Seagate homepage at > > http://www.seagate.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/at/st31720a.txt > > So there is no "problem" with the drive. Interesting, though. A similar > problem occurs on the probing of certain Quantum models of EIDE drives. > Anyone faced similar problems with other drives ?
I get the same thing with a Panasonic LK-MC686BP Atapi CD-Rom (detected as a CR-585). Kernel and hdparm report BuffSize=0kB while the specs say it has 128kB cache. Works fine, in any case, I get over 1.5MB/s transfers (non-cached).
-- Steve Kump <skump@inch.com>
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