Thus spake Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Actually, not even then. Modern IDE drives only write entire tracks at a > > > time. If you modify a single sector, then the drive has to read the entire > > > track into the buffer, in-place edit the sector, and then rewrite the entir > e > > > track. [...] > ie: if writing to every 10th or 20th (or whatever) sector is just as slow > as writing to every sector with write caching turned off, then you have a > track-write drive. This is because every single sector write causes the > entire track to be written.
I remember you mentioning this trick the last time this topic came up. I was hoping someone had the results of running this test on some actual drives. ;-) Another strategy, I suppose, would be to look at which patents the drives claim to use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
