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SubjectRe: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems.


On Mon, 24 May 2004, Eric D. Mudama wrote:

> Picture a nice fast drive doing 100 writes/second to the media... if
> you give it over 200 writes at a time, it'll occupy your 2 seconds.
> Newer drives with 8MB or larger buffers are certainly capable of
> caching a lot more than 200 writes...

Quite unlikely. Usually disks have a big cache but it can hold a very
limited number of blocks. 8MB of cache is probably divided in 8 blocks
of 1MB each.


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Giuliano.
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