Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:08:07 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) Message-ID: <199611241238.XAA24651@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199611240909.KAA09943@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 24, 96 10:09:41 am"
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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 [[
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