Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:09:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: "Dangerously dedicated" yet again (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c) Message-ID: <200112100809.fBA89Oe07723@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:23:38 CST." <20011210062338.GA51934@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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> > > :> > IBM DTLA drives are known to rotate fast enough near the spindle
> > > :> > that the sustained write speed exceeds the ability of the controller
> > > :> > electronics to keep up, and results in crap being written to disk.
> >
> > I would adssume it actually the tracks FURTHEREST from the spindle..
With ZBR, anything is possible.
> Wouldn't the linear speed be faster closer to the spindle at 7200 RPM
> than at the edge?
The stunning ignorance being displayed in this thread appears to have
reached an all-time low.
*sigh*
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