In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
09/20/2006
at 12:05 AM, John Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The VTOC starts at cylinder 0 for 29 tracks
> The INDEX starts at cylinder 2 for 45 tracks.
>
> If for some reason the INDEX was set to 5,0,45. Would we have a
>problem with response time?
You might have a problem with fragmentation, but if 3 cylinders is
enough to make a difference then you need a larger volume.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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