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Re: Linux Il



On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> > > since it seems to be that the fastest tracks of the disks I used lately
> > > are in the beginning, I see no harm in that.
> > > 
> > > funny. up untill 2-3 years ago, the end of the disk was fastest, anyone
> > > has any ideas when did that switch?
> > 
> > When: no. But why:  - The boot sector and other startup and boot-related
> > parts of an installed OS are the least often used parts of a system. Thus
> 
> umm, peter, you are saying the complete opposite of what I'm saying... I
> said lately the beginning of the disk is faster, which MAY sugest it's on
> the outer rim...

Hmm - maybe you moved to SCSI disks ? ;) Because those are built as usual,
with track 0 outside as far as I can tell.

Peter