Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Speed Trials: ICD Advantage 2000 Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 23:38:13 GMT References: <2807@enea.se> <91079.154628IO92257@MAINE.BITNET> <1991Mar25.174202.14540@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <07027.AA07027@babylon.rmt.sub.org> Lines: 19 >In article <07027.AA07027@babylon.rmt.sub.org> rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel) writes: >In article <1991Mar25.174202.14540@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, >vho@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Viet Ho) writes: > >> OK, I just got my ICD and here's what I got with diskperfa: > >Remember that ICD's caching algorithm uses deferred writes! >Just imagine a system crash right before CMD_UPDATE ... Yeah, that's the case with UNIX, too though. It should be fine as long as you don't go snapping your Amiga on and off like a toaster or something. Let's just say I haven't had much problem with deferred writes on my Sun-3 >Ralph -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |