>It was probably a good value to use aeons ago when it took a real SLED 3390 >16.67 ms. to spin around once, so 8.3 ms. was 1/2 revolution. >Today, >however, is aeons later as far as the hardware is concerned, especially >channel speed when delivering data from controller cache instead of straight >from the platter.
Talk to IBM! I didn't make up the number. It's just what it is. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

