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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
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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