bad block bug on second disk in V/AT 2.4.0L

John Plocher plocher%sally at Sun.COM
Fri Aug 4 09:01:09 AEST 1989


+---- In <9728 at alice.UUCP> paul debra writes:
| +---- In <433 at siswat.UUCP> A. Lester Buck writes:
| | The Microport 2.4 disk driver appartently does full track caching on any
| | access to a track ...
| +----
| Are you sure about this? This would make uPort the first Unix System i've
| come accross that would do track buffering.
+---

Yup, Microport's hard disk driver does do full track caching.  It has done so
for several years (>2).  The floppy driver also does track caching and 
supports 1:1 interleave as the default (AT&T uses 4:1)

  -John Plocher



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