Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:57:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: patl@phoenix.volant.org, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disktab entry for Seagate ST-19171W (Barracuda 9) Message-ID: <199910131757.TAA00952@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19991013075344.47656@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Oct 13, 1999 7:53:44 am"
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As J Wunsch wrote ... > As patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: ... > > My real question is would I get any performance gain if I change the > > geometry... > > No. The default setup of newfs ignores geometry data to the best > level that is possible, considering the underlying UFS technology that > is somewhat aged already, and that's usually the best performance > you'd get with a modern drive. Modern drives don't have a constant nr sectors/track. The outside cylinders have more sec/track than the inner cylinders. So there is no such things as *the* geometry anymore. UFS is from the days that this concept was not yet used. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the messagehelp
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