Re: Could hd-drivers and buffer algorithm be hardware?

2001-04-17 Thread Tomas Telensky
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, John Nilsson wrote: > The idea is as follows. > > Design a hardisk controller that would take care of all harddrive and block > device managment and provide a virtual storage area to the OS. This way all > the kernel would have to worry about is a virtual harddrive and h

Could hd-drivers and buffer algorithm be hardware?

2001-04-17 Thread John Nilsson
The idea is as follows. Design a hardisk controller that would take care of all harddrive and block device managment and provide a virtual storage area to the OS. This way all the kernel would have to worry about is a virtual harddrive and how to fech and write data from and to it. Buffering,