From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 24 10:08:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02754 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02714 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id EAA07836 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 04:40:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id XAA24651; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:08:09 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611241238.XAA24651@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) In-Reply-To: <199611240909.KAA09943@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 24, 96 10:09:41 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:08:07 +1030 (CST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (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 J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > 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? I believe that they are; poke a Seagate Medalist in the middle of recal (if you can catch it at it in the first place), or a new Hawk or 'cuda, and see if it siezes. I can't speak for other manufacturers, as I haven't been hands-on with enough product to be sure of myself. > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[