-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktYx5gACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VW9ACgiBlIEnc/Q0FAVIor0Skzfn+e U88AoIs93YmRDAcVdA6XQh3UpPEphhoo =3AHt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org