deford@mizari.mitre.org (Kevin M. Deford) (04/18/91)
Can anyone explain why one can't run disks which have a read ahead cache option enabled on a Sun Sparcstation (4/40)? I have two such drives (A Fujitsu 2266 and a Hitachi DK-312. Both drives give odd errors when that option is enabled. Yet when I run that way, I get up to a 50% boast in read performance. Kevin M. DeFord Internet: deford@linus.mitre.org; UUCP: {decvax,philabs}!linus!deford Office: 1A423, phone (617)271-3424 Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730