Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alan Olsen" <> | Date | Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:01:29 -0800 | Subject | Re: Hard Drive Cache information |
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On Mar 5, 10:55pm, Andre M. Hedrick wrote: > Subject: Re: Hard Drive Cache information > 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.
Well, this drive is supposed to have a 512k buffer. I have gotten reports from others that this model of drive reports as having a 0k buffer (and acts like it too). The drive is giving me other problems and I am trying to get it swaped out on RMA.
> > 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.
I wish I could afford to, but I think I would be shopping for another wife if I did.
-- Alan Olsen "Carpe Aptenodytes!" alano@ncd.com
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