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Date:      Fri, 21 May 1999 16:42:44 -0700
From:      "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To:        "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: SGI, XFS and OSS? 
Message-ID:  <000001bea3e3$9f9db890$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to>
In-Reply-To: <199905212246.RAA69965@nospam.hiwaay.net>

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> My ISSR required knowing if anything such as a large NVRAM was in a
> system. I've been thru a number of SGI systems and ever found more than
> a modest amount of NVRAM, and that was in a clock chip.

	It's not particularly hard to design a board with a good-sized chunk of
battery-backed static RAM. How much of a performance difference would a PCI
card with a 4Mb buffer make? But I think that what you really need is the
battery-backed RAM to be built into the hard drive controller or between the
controller and the drive.

	DS



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