Quoting Andy Sy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ...is probably untrue because the presence of large caches > on today's IDE hard drives (I believe they're up to 4 to 8MB > on high end drives nowadays) does make a practical difference > in the throughput of hard disks. As to whether Linux's 'efficient > cache buffer management' will necessarily 'mask the effect' of > onboard hard disk caches, I think that's an open question. The > best way to settle this would be to disable the onboard hard disk > caches and do a benchmark. Now taking bets... :-)
Oh, please do! Benchmarks are my _very_ favourite way by which people fool themselves. This could be very entertaining. > Now about SCSI disconnect... how does that work.... Wait, you're going around making judgements about drive technology, and you _don't know how disconnect works_? I hope, by the way, that you're not under the misconception that I've volunteered to _convince_ you of anything? -- Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated, cooperatively-managed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] modern-American-English-usage-improvement association. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
