Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 May 2004 11:05:57 +0200 (CEST) | From | Giuliano Pochini <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems. |
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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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