From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 24 01:21:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA05487 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA05463 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA17202 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:21:36 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA17501 for chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:21:35 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id KAA09943 for chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:09:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611240909.KAA09943@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:09:41 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611240424.OAA24031@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Nov 24, 96 02:54:53 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)