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SubjectRe: File system compression, not at the block layer


Tom Vier wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:18:44PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>>In a drive with multiple platters and therefore multiple heads, you
>>could read/write from all heads simultaneously. Or is that how they
>>already do it?
>
>
> fwih, there was once a drive that did this. the problem is track alignment.
> these days, you'd need seperate motors for each head.
>

Oh, yeah. Forget the separate motors. Would definately need that to
move heads independently.

The problem is track alignment. Don't drives dedicate one track on one
platter as an alignment track?

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