Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 1997 14:11:21 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: cache size wrong on quantum disk in 2.0.30 |
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On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Samuli Kaski wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Marty Leisner wrote: > > I recently got a quantum bigfoot 6.2 gig IDE disk... > > > > Booting, the information has (this is 2.0.30): > > hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/17152kB Cache, LBA, CHS=790/255/63 > > Apparently this is a common problem with either some (E)IDE > drives or the checking algorithm itself: > > hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280A, 1222MB w/76kB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63 > > It should read 128 Kb, not as big difference as yours though :)
That's because the cache is shared with a part of the firmware. Modern drives have almost no firmware in ROM, the largest part is read from the disk.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/m68k on Amiga http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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