Re: 2.2.x fails to identify hard disk buffer?

Andreas Bombe (andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de)
Mon, 1 Nov 1999 22:14:47 +0100

On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 08:55:51PM +0100, Andrea Ferraris wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > Fujitsu hard disk, model MHC2040AT. Linux says that the disk has 0KB
> > > cache, Fujitsu says it has a 512KB buffer. What's going on here?
> >
> > Linux is reporting what the drive tells it.

[...]

> way there are at least 2 manner for a such result; it is
> 1) the drive says buffer size equal 0 and Linux kernel reports it

IIRC newer EIDE specs say that a drive does not neccessarily have to
report its cache size. So it says zero and you have to trust the
label.

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