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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 06:57:10 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Stephen.Byan@quantum.com (Stephen Byan), bright@wintelcom.net ('Alfred Perlstein'), mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob), gibbs@scsiguy.com (Justin T. Gibbs), sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt), oberman@es.net (Kevin Oberman), scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA 
Message-ID:  <16087.984549430@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 05:55:21 GMT." <200103140555.WAA04683@usr05.primenet.com> 

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In message <200103140555.WAA04683@usr05.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert writes:
>> >If NT and FreeBSD both support hinting of metadata writes, it's only a
>> >matter of time before the hardware support appears.
>> 
>> I have been looking for a long time for a PCI NVRAM card at a reasonable
>> cost, anyone know of any with a reasonable price ?
>
>How much NVRAM do you need?
>
>It seems to me that you can get a PCI card to plug a PC-CARD
>into the back of a regular PC at Fry's for pretty cheap, and
>that there is no lack of memory cards in the PC-CARD/PCMCIA
>form factor.

There you run into a speed problem.

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