From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 11 14:06:14 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA10677 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 14:06:14 -0700 Received: from clem.systemsix.com (clem.systemsix.com [198.99.86.131]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA10655 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 14:06:04 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clem.systemsix.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA29000; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:05:21 -0600 Message-Id: <199508112105.PAA29000@clem.systemsix.com> X-Authentication-Warning: clem.systemsix.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: Steve Passe To: Jay Kirchhoff Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Aug 1995 13:50:17 PDT." Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:05:18 -0600 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Jay Kirchhoff wrote: >I thing IBM has a drive like that. It had two 2 gig 3.5 drives mounted >in a full height frame. The ad said the two drive were addressed as one >and the data was stripped across them. No, the ad I (think) I saw was for a discrete drive. Really not sure why drive makers haven't done this years ago, there are already multiple heads (1 per surface), and they are already 'spindle-synced'. The cost would be duplication of head read/write circuits and some additional combiner silicon. Steve Passe smp@teal.csn.org