2009/1/5 Dan <[email protected]>: > > 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.
At least from what I have seen, cylinder order *is* done by numbering cylinders starting on one platter, then the next, etc. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > -- -hackmiester --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
