From: Howlin' Bob (gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU)
Date: 08/24/93 

From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob)
Subject: Re: SCSI Performance (Yet Again)
Date: 24 Aug 1993 16:03:43 GMT

muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:

> JH> Again, on my ST, there was a program that bypassed the
> JH> filesystem completely to test raw disk i/o, and somehow they

>Should not be hard to write. Something like

> buf=malloc(16*1024*1024);
> fd=open("/dev/hda",O_RDWR);

Nope. All block devices under Linux are buffered.