Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:38:27 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: disk head scheduling |
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Richard B. Johnson writes: [...] > Full track buffering suffers from the possibility that the next > read or write will be on a different head. If the buffer was > dirtied by a write, it is flushed to the physical media before > any other operation can take place. To save time, the whole > track is written. This saves time because you can start the > write anywhere. However, it still takes 1 revolution of the > platter. > > Because of this, rotational latency now means nothing either. > This is another buzzword gone obsolete.
Not quite: it still matters when reading.
Regards,
Richard....
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