Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:09:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) Message-ID: <199611240909.KAA09943@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611240424.OAA24031@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Nov 24, 96 02:54:53 pm"
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As Michael Smith wrote: > So, to deal with the "AV" crowd, whose hardware often can't handle > being starved of data for several hundred ms, drive manufacturers made > the recalibration process interruptible, so that data operations > continue and recalibration occurs in the "background". Makes me wonder: now that they _know_ the technology to perform the thermal recalibration in background, it doesn't cost the manufacturer any more. So why don't they simply ship all drives this way? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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