From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 10 0: 4:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164D037B416; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:04:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBA89Oe07723; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:09:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112100809.fBA89Oe07723@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: Julian Elischer , Matthew Dillon , Terry Lambert , Greg Lehey , "Daniel O'Connor" , 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) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:23:38 CST." <20011210062338.GA51934@leviathan.inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:09:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > :> > 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* -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message