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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: VLB IDE cache controller Date: 22 Sep 1993 13:47:30 +0200 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <27pe0i$4vk@Germany.EU.net> References: <27mf1g$ajt@news.u.washington.edu> <RAM.93Sep21145412@xor.epi.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <RAM.93Sep21145412@xor.epi.wisc.edu>, ram@xor.epi.wisc.edu (Ram Bhamidipaty) writes: |> >> I notice that the cache controller doesn't seem to improve |> >> the I/O performance at all. |> Thus I would expect almost no benefit from a caching controller, since |> the cache system in 386bsd is already doing that job. It *boots* faster, at least on my WD1009V. Big deal ;-) Bernard