[Paranoia] Work with Cached Drive

Kyungjoon Lee kjoonlee at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 21:36:15 PDT 2006


On 4/24/06, steven woody <narkewoody at gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks, Nils.  but by far, i don't want to touch wine for some reasons
> and still look for a native solution.

To quote Monty from http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=108647&cid=9244774

> I'll probably get to it eventually actually; ATAPI finally added packet commands for dealing with cache management on ATAPI drives, just like SCSI always had (but most drives just ignored). ..Or you can increase the cache thrashing constant and rebuild. These days computers have more than 8 meg, it's probably worth doing ;-)
>
> Monty

This still hasn't happened though. I think I've tried grepping the
source for the constant, but I don't remember finding anything.

Cheers,
Kyungjoon Lee


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