On Sat, 2006-Apr-08 18:00:56 -0600, Scott Long wrote: >Modern disks (I don't know how to define a cutoff to this term, >unfortunately)
I got my first ZBR (zone-block recording) Seagate SCSI disk at work about 20 years ago. I'm not sure when it became common. >other day. I'm still not clear on whether the drive starts recording >at the outer rim or the inner rim of the disk, and that could very well >different between manufacturers. Traditionaly hard disks have cylnder 0 at the outside. It's possible that some manufacturers may have swapped this. Note that CDs and DVD have block 0 at the inside and so the best I/O performance is usually at the end of the disk. > The only way to get a 'fair' comparison is to use >separate identical disks with identical partition layouts for each >of your OS installs. If disk I/O is an issue, maybe even newfs the partitions for each test. -- Peter Jeremy _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
