Re: hard drive buffering

[Toni Mueller <openbsd-tech_(_at_)_oeko_(_dot_)_net>]

Hello,

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:58:11PM -0800, Samuel Clements wrote:
> I know that the current IBM drives (larger than 20G) use a 4M buffer
> that can cause problems when running 'consumer' OS's like 9X/ME
> combined with a fast CPU (faster than 733). When the machine goes
> to shutdown, it kills power to the drives before the cache it
> completly flushed and can cause the infamous scandisk on boot
> problem or worse. Does anyone know if the BSD's are affected like this?

we have a few IBM DTLA drives @ 20G on 733 CPUs and so far - under
Linux and OpenBSD - see not much of a problem. I'm not so totally
convinced that these drives are really good, but they do seem to
be the best IDE drives we had so far.


Best Regards,
--Toni++