Mikhail Malamud wrote:
This blows because I am porting a legacy application
from an MVS system. This application accesses two
sequential datasets - flat files that are over 10GBs.
Since both files have to be accessed at the same time,
I was hoping to put them on different platters to
avoid disk con
Can you put the files on two different disk drives?
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Mikhail Malamud
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 9:39 PM
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Subject: Re: fdisk and disklabel C/H/S
--- Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTEC
--- Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Reported CHS has been different than actual CHS
> since PC hard drives
> started exceeding 1024 cylinders. Today, using the
> physical geometry
> would be difficult because the number of sectors per
> track would vary.
>
> Also, you wouldn't want
Mikhail Malamud wrote:
If I create a partition with start CHS 0/0/1 and end
CHS 0/60/1, will that roughly create a partition that
spans a physical platter or does BIOS completely
recalculate head values and I there are no guarantees
where data will actually end up.
Reported CHS has been different t
On 2005.5.15, at 07:28 AM, Mikhail Malamud wrote:
I have a disk with geometry: 2586/240/63 [39100320
Sectors]. The number of platters on the disk is 4 but
the number of heads 240 and I know that this is
because how BIOS calculates it. Dont know why though.
Since BIOS doesn't know much about large d
I have a disk with geometry: 2586/240/63 [39100320
Sectors]. The number of platters on the disk is 4 but
the number of heads 240 and I know that this is
because how BIOS calculates it. Dont know why though.
If I create a partition with start CHS 0/0/1 and end
CHS 0/60/1, will that roughly create
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