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From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jacs@gnome.co.uk, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Micropolis 1991 AV 9GB Drive 
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> That's for sequential data accessing ... random data accessing across
> the entire disk is NASTY

Why? There is nothing in the parameters that would indicate that they would
be slow at this.

--Brett