Re: Hard Drive Cache information

Andreas Bombe (andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de)
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 01:59:06 +0100

On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:03:28PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
> I have a Toshiba MK-4006MAV laptop drive. When 2.2 boots, it reports the drive
> as having a 0k buffer. The specs for the drive list the buffer as 512k.
>
> Is this a known problem drive or is it broken in the kernel or is my drive just
> broken. (The latter may be true, but I have no reliable way to verify this.)

Neither is broken. Newer EIDE specs don't require the drive to report
their cache size. That's your zero, then. To find out the real value
you will have to look at the specs for your drive.

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