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Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?



Alvin Oga wrote:
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>         - similarly, you cannot mix 2MB buffer disks with 8MB buffer disks

Unless someone can confirm that, I believe that statement is bogus.

How would different buffer sizes cause incompatibility?  The IDE
controller doesn't care whether a requested sector comes from the 
cache or comes from the disk.


Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
dsb@smart.net



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