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- From: milton@teal.csn.org (Milton Scritsmier)
- Subject: Re: Disk performance issues, was IDE vs SCSI-2 using iozone
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- References: <36995@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov12.193308.20297@igor.tamri.com> <sc77t04@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:03:56 GMT
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- In article <sc77t04@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >
- >John, you ignore the fact that almost all decent SCSI drives these
- >days do remapping by sector slipping. Thus you have at most a single
- >sector time cost for remapped blocks. Yes, some of the older drives
- >remapped blocks to the end of the drive, but this is very rare
- >these days. The overhead in the embedded drive controller is pretty
- >minimal for the lookup, although not non-existent.
-
- In its current drives, HP remaps entire tracks, even for one sector
- errors (each zone has a certain number of spare tracks). This was
- a conscious design choice made after studying various methods. Some
- of the reasons they gave were that media errors often overlap sector
- boundaries, and that many disk operations often do not cross track
- boundaries. In addition, head switching times to get to a slipped
- sector pushed onto another track or to a spare at the end of a cylinder
- often are several milliseconds. This is a significant fraction of a
- seek, especially if you have to switch back to the original track to
- pick up more data vs. seeking to a track where all the data is.
-
- No doubt sector slipping gives the best overall performance in general,
- but with today's emphasis on capacity as well as performane, sector
- slipping wastes too much media. In addition, the media has improved
- to the point where a hundred errors on a 1 gig disk is high.
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