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Re: problem with MO drive (NCR driver problem?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ronald Wahl)
Sat Jun 27 10:58:27 1998

Date: 	Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:56:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ronald Wahl <rwahl@gmx.net>
To: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980627151834.2115A-100000@localhost>

Hi Gerard,

> Since you donnot report any kernel error message related to the problem,
> I would think your MO drive and the NCR driver version you are using are
> working quite fine (BTW, thanks for using latest driver version).

Yes, no problems so far.

> Seems to me you are flooding the buffer cache with blocks of different 
> sizes and Linux is known not to like that at all.

Hmm, do you know if the buffer cache in 2.1.x has this fixed?

ron

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