-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2013-03-31 at 23:35 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
That by the way is why start of the drive is faster than the end. The drives start at the outside edge, so for one revolution the head passes over a lot more sectors.
True. However, some measurements say that disks are actually faster at about 1/4 or 1/3 of the way. I can make guesses, but I have not yet read an explanation of that :-?
Anyway, if you think you have the ability to align partitions to tracks, you are simply mistaken. You can merely
Yes, it is an illusion. Still, there are some partitioning sotware that does so. I mean, it says it does. I think it is sfdisk, it even complains if partitions do not end/start at track ends and makes you force the layout to accept it (if it is not sfdisk I can find out which, I have the text saved somewhere). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFZA4gACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WZIQCghxsX2ifibB5htl9rZjCoFibM 6u0AmwRdL9Fl3ZEwsSsano3czlFhqTdK =8O/v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org