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From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD and IDE drives
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Date: 24 Sep 92 04:47:56 GMT
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In article <19r3h9INN6fe@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
>
>order to get the most out of the media there are more sectors on the
>outer cylinders and fewer on the inner cylinders. There is no way to
>do this effectively other than geometry mapping. Now, drives with
>battery backed write-back caches would be great. Then the machine
>accessing the disk doesn't need to do anything fancy to get the most
>out of the drive.
Unless, of course, you put the *actual* drive geometry with all the
gory detail of how many sectors in which tracks, and drivers and
elevator-algorithms to handle that.
Time to do that ? ;-)
oh BTW, is there a list of which Mother boards and which BIOSes
386BSD is known to work well with ? Before I plunge my life-savings
into a new 386/486SX ...
Whats the lastest date on Trident support for Xfree86 ?
-- shrikumar ( shi@legato.cs.umass.edu, shri@iucaa.ernet.in )