Re: File system compression, not at the block layer

[Timothy Miller]

Tom Vier wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:18:44PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
> > In a drive with multiple platters and therefore multiple heads, you 
> > could read/write from all heads simultaneously.  Or is that how they 
> > already do it?
>
>
> fwih, there was once a drive that did this. the problem is track alignment.
> these days, you'd need seperate motors for each head.

Oh, yeah.  Forget the separate motors.  Would definately need that to 
move heads independently.

The problem is track alignment.  Don't drives dedicate one track on one 
platter as an alignment track?

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