On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:47:27PM -0800, LA Walsh wrote: > Some further information in response to a private email, I did hdparm -ti > under both > 2216 and 2217 -- they are identical -- this may be something weird > w/extended partitions... What nonsense. There is nothing special with extended partitions. Partitions influence the logical view on the disk, but not I/O. (But the outer rim of a disk is faster than the inner side.) Moreover, you report elapsed times 0:27, 0:22, 0:24, 0:28, 0:21, 0:24, 0:27 where is this performance hit? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
