10 Oct
2011
10 Oct
'11
3:29 p.m.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
An Eagle is a little more complicated than a
"typlcal" drive in that
each surface has two heads - one covers the inner half, the other covers
the outer half. I don't think this head arrangement is unique to the
Eagle but it's not all that common.
ST225 !!
Since the HDA is opaque, it's much less unique than people realize.
Generally, the computer "sees" that as two surfaces.
If you compile statistics, the inner "surface" has demonstrably less
reliability that the outer "surface", but that shows up as "even/odd"
heads.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com