From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 26 10:15:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16658 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:15:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA16652 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:15:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA25292; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:58:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611261758.KAA25292@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: SCSI A/V drives To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joel Ray Holveck) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:58:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, grog@lemis.de, chat@FreeBSD.org, smut@clem-162.dorms.tamu.edu In-Reply-To: <199611260354.WAA10790@hill.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Nov 25, 96 10:54:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > So the calibration factor is actually a function which can't be > predicted by a single point. Fair enough, although it would seem that > the calculations could be made from the data acquired during the > normal seeks, whether it's a single factor, multiple coefficients, > or a lookup table. It *could* be predicted, if they stored a thermister value at format time. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.