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Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Minichino)
Thu Dec 10 21:10:36 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:50:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Minichino <rmini@joni.pasture.net>
Reply-To: Robert Minichino <rmini@joni.pasture.net>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
> Come off it, when you do disk benchmarks you use a dataset sufficently
> large so that the cache doesn't matter. Linux does caching just fine,
> DPT's cache is somewhat redundant.
DPT's cache is designed to be used with operating systems that do
caching. Its principal purpose is to speed up writes, allowing dirty
blocks to be flushed very quickly, and the controller to do the write
completely in the background.
--
Robert Minichino
Chief Engineer
Denarius Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.denarius.com/
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