Thus spake Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, not even then. Modern IDE drives only write entire tracks at a > time. If you modify a single sector, then the drive has to read the entire > track into the buffer, in-place edit the sector, and then rewrite the entire > track. [...] > And that completely blows FFS's assumptions out of the water. And what > is sad is that many SCSI disks are similar these days. But not all of > them (I'm told).
I've heard this before. It would be very useful to have information about which drives have this misfeature, but I guess it isn't the sort of thing that hard drive manufacturers like to advertise. Does anyone have any data on track-writing drives? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
