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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, 2010-01-21 at 16:12 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:


> I think you have part of this wrong.  I've never heard of a slow disk
> write.

Slow as in mS, because the head has to move to a different track, then 
back for the next sector. A hickup. Not slow as in seconds as you describe 
when a read fails and retries a dozen times.

> Disk drives do NOT verify what they write, they just write.

Yes, I think that is correct. Actually, MsDOS had a setting that forced a 
verify on each write. I wonder if Linux has it :-?

And your explanation below is also correct, I understand.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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