At 8:50 AM -0600 1/5/2009, Hunter Fuller wrote: >The disk is partitioned in this manner: >Say you have multiple platters in a drive (the most common) and you >have an 80 GiB disk. >We will say it has four platters for simplicity. >When you partition it, let's say you create 2x 40 GiB partitions. That >means the data in partition one will be stored on platters 1-2 and the >data in partition two on platters 3-4.
AFAIK, logical to physical block translation is done in CYLINDER order, not platter order. So partitions cut a swath of cylinders thru a drive. They do NOT live on a single platter. That would be quite inefficient; totally eliminating the point of having independent arms. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
