On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:12:58PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: > Erik Mouw wrote: > >Easy: Drives don't have the same speed on all tracks. The platters are > >built-up from zones with different recording densities: zones near the > >center of the platters have a lower recording density and hence a lower > >datarate (less bits/second pass under the head). Zones at the outer > >diameter have a higher recording density and a higher datarate. > > So it has definitely nothing to do with filesystem? I also thought about > physical reasons because I don't think the hdparm depends on filesystems...
That's right, hdparm doesn't care about filesystems. The speed difference is caused by the physical geometry of the drive. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
