I've just checked on the drive in question, ie the Seagate ST31720A, and
the technical specifications from the company state that the hard drive
has in fact a 128K cache buffer.
I got this from the Seagate homepage at
http://www.seagate.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/at/st31720a.txt
So there is no "problem" with the drive. Interesting, though. A similar
problem occurs on the probing of certain Quantum models of EIDE drives.
Anyone faced similar problems with other drives ?
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997,
Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just got a larger harddisk 8-) --
>
> Unfortunately the kernel (2.0.29, i586) says
>
> <4>hda: ST310720A, 1626MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=825/64/63
>
> from hdparm -i I get
>
> Model=ST31720A, FwRev=0.65, ..., BuffSIze=0kB, ...
>
> Is this a problem in the kernel, or is it a problem in the disk drive?
>
> I have a HP Vectra XM (series 4 5/133) with a Intel-Triton (82371
> rev 2) chipset.
>
> Ulrich
>
>
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