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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: fx.ARCS and Fuji M2624F
- Keywords: comparison buffer
- Message-ID: <skdiv8c@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 03:00:13 GMT
- References: <1ej3biINN2ol@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1ej3biINN2ol@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> sgf@cfm.brown.edu (Sam Fulcomer) writes:
-
- | 4.0.5F fx.ARCS barfs on a RD/WR compare test of a Fuji M2624F, claiming
- | "can't allocate memory for comparison buffer".
- |
- | Is this known behaviour specific to fx.ARCS?
-
- The malloc arena for the ARCS standalone fx was a bit on the low side ;)
-
- That has been fixed for the next release. The work around is
- to do a writeonly, followed by a readonly exercise, or do use
- the kernel version of fx (by far the best solution, if the
- drive isn't your system drive).
-
- Even the non-ARCS drive can't handle the cylinder sizes for
- write-cmp on some newer drives, like the 2GB DEC drives. That
- also has been fixed for the next release.
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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