Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:43:58 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: File system compression, not at the block layer |
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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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