Fedora Core 5 + WinXP Pro

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 19:29 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 20:25 +0200, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> > Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc at yahoo.com> writes:
> > 
> > > the first place.  First spot is the first spot.  First drive, and also
> > > the first sectors of the hard drive, the prime real estate of the drive
> > > where the accesses are faster.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate on why disk accesses are faster in the first sectors of
> > the hard drive?
> > 
> > Regards
> > Ingemar
> > 
> 
> A drive's sectors actually start out on the rim of the drive. In that
> area, you have more sectors per track (outer rim) than as you go closer
> towards the spindle.  At the spindle you have the lowest sectors per
> track.  Both the data rate and the sectors per track are greatest at the
> rim of the hard drive; which is where the boot sector is too btw.  The
> heads can stay on one track and transfer more contiguous data per
> cylinder on cylinders at the rim than they can close to the spindle.
> 
All this analysis is valid except in my experience the recording on a
hard disk gets nowhere really close to the spindle for obvious reasons.
Only the outer sections of the disk are recorded on.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>