Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:07:53 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: disk head scheduling |
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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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