"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
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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).
Windows made the jump to 1MB alignment with Vista. Opensuse a couple years ago. I'm sure there is software that still treats CHS geometry as meaningful, but that software is out of date. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org