De-activate a swap partition - I don't believe it!

[Mike McCarty]

Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Mike McCarty kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 22. 
> maaliskuuta 2006 10:52):
> 
>>Track to track spacing is the same all across the disc.
> 
> True.
> 
>>And 
>>there are the same number of sectors per track as well.
> 
> This hasn't been true for at least 10 years. All modern hard 
> drives use Zone Bit Recording 

Thanks for that piece of information. I knew that sth like this
was done on CDROMs, and on the old MAC floppies.

> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_bit_recording)
> 
> This means data transfer speed is nearly 2x higher on the outer 
> tracks of the disc. See the "Sequential Transfer Rates" table of 

Well, it would be, wouldn't it.

Thanks again.

Mike
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