Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?

Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-14T03:35:17Z

Alan Cox wrote:

> You couldn't even tell where such boundaries exist, or what the real
> block size of the underlying media is. Cyliners are all different sizes.

Found this by accident while skimming a new book; haven't visited yet
but it may be of interest:

A technical report describing Skippy and two other disk drive
microbenchmarks (run in seconds or minutes rather than hours or days)
is at

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.ucb/CSD-99-1063

(Hennessey & Patterson 3rd ed., Ch.7, exercise 5.)

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