Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?

Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-04-13T18:33:36Z

On 2003-04-13T19:24:05,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org> said:

> Now given these discs have processors on board isn't it about time
> someone improved the disc interface standards to push some of the
> intelligence drivewards? I guess with enough intelligence the drive
> could do free block allocation and could do things like copying blocks
> around for you.

Ah, you have reinvented SCSI (which can copy without involving the host...),
or reinvented the Object Based Storage (see Lustre).

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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