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SubjectRe: [OFFTOPIC] Re: disk head scheduling
Guy Sotomayor wrote:
> I don't know where you got the 100MB number from but that would imply
> a *very* dense drive. The best I could find was a Seagate Elite at
> 47GB (not a terribly fast drive) that has ~10000 cylinders (yes 10^4),
> 28 heads and 328 sectors/track. Given that sectors are 512 bytes
> that's ~150KB.

28 heads does not sound like a realistic geometry.
And I thought all modern drives varied the number of physical sectors
per physical track.

Is 10000/28/328 simply what the drive reports, or do you know it to be
the actual geometry on the platters?

-- Jamie

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