Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:41:38 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Juhani Rautiainen <> | 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 :)
Fireball gives that figure becauses it puts drives firmware in that 128 kB cache. If you check Fireball documentation from Quantum website http://www.quantum.com/products/dpsg/fireballtm/q_fbl_sp.html look at the bottom of the document.
-- Juhani Rautiainen jrauti@iki.fi
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