On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:35 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
> Nothing as drastic as the alleged FastRand, but I can vouch for 3330 and > 3330-equivalent drives dancing. My boss told me to write a program that > started at the middle of the pack and then did seeks in and out to the > first untouched cylinder until it had hit every cylinder. I told him that > the timings from the test would have no relevance to performance in the > wild, but he insisted that I write it anyway. > I remember having Memorex(?) 3330-11 equivalents. They looked like a top loading washer. And vibrated like one with an unbalanced load during the spin cycle. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > -- A sine curve goes off to infinity, or at least the end of the blackboard. -- Prof. Steiner Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
