Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 1999 22:55:19 -0600 (CST) | From | "Andre M. Hedrick" <> | Subject | Re: Hard Drive Cache information |
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On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, 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.
Many drives use the so called buffer storing the firmware; however, it is unusual that one would require all of the 512k. Most notable is the Fujitsu Drives that have a 256k buffer that reports as ZERO.
> 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.)
Not broken, just a "Toshiba laptop"............see page one of message at www.linuxhq.com...........you may want to find another laptop.
> > -- > Alan Olsen "Carpe Aptenodytes!" > alano@ncd.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick The Linux IDE guy -- http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
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