Can you put the files on two different disk drives? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mikhail Malamud Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 9:39 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk and disklabel C/H/S
--- Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reported CHS has been different than actual CHS > since PC hard drives > started exceeding 1024 cylinders. Today, using the > physical geometry > would be difficult because the number of sectors per > track would vary. > > Also, you wouldn't want to put a partition on a > single platter, since > all the heads (on almost all drives) are linked > together and you'd spend > a lot of time seeking. With variable sectors per > track, the outside > edge of the disk is faster (sometimes double!) so > you want to use that > first. This blows because I am porting a legacy application from an MVS system. This application accesses two sequential datasets - flat files that are over 10GBs. Since both files have to be accessed at the same time, I was hoping to put them on different platters to avoid disk contention - two processes attempting to read from the same or near cyclinder groups but since like you say all heads are linked together, this wont do much good.
