Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems.

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Tuesday 25 of May 2004 11:05, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2004, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
> > Picture a nice fast drive doing 100 writes/second to the media... if
> > you give it over 200 writes at a time, it'll occupy your 2 seconds.
> > Newer drives with 8MB or larger buffers are certainly capable of
> > caching a lot more than 200 writes...
>
> Quite unlikely. Usually disks have a big cache but it can hold a very
> limited number of blocks. 8MB of cache is probably divided in 8 blocks
> of 1MB each.

No.

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