On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:00:56PM -0600 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: > > Modern disks (I don't know how to define a cutoff to this term, > unfortunately) definitely put more bits onto the outer rim of the > platter than the inner rim.
Pretty much any disk you'd currently find, I'd say. diskinfo -t won't run through on my 4 or 2 gigs ("disk too small for test" :), but on my 9 gigger: Transfer rates: outside: 102400 kbytes in 5.215159 sec = 19635 kbytes/sec middle: 102400 kbytes in 6.268067 sec = 16337 kbytes/sec inside: 102400 kbytes in 8.237962 sec = 12430 kbytes/sec da4 at ahc2 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 da4: <IBM DNES-309170W SAH0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da4: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da4: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"