Re: Help: Quantum Atlas XP34300 disk on SunOS 4.1.3

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From: Anthony D'Atri
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 21:38

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>The 7200 rpm question is interesting. Solaris 2.x newfs accepts the 7200 rpm 
>parameter without balking. I wonder how much difference it makes in real 
>world filesystem performance?

These days many disks don't have a constant number of sectors/track, which
when added to the fact that SCSI addresses logical blocks, not c/h/s,
decreases the ability and/or importance to specify the real physical
geometry to the filesystem code.

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Subject: Re: Help: Quantum Atlas XP34300 disk on SunOS 4.1.3
Date: 25 Aug 1995 14:38:54 -0700
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