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- From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: How does 'mediainit -G' (guru mode :-) work?
- Message-ID: <1609@hcshh.hcs.de>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:00:47 GMT
- References: <sean.724847789@coombs> <BzMvzA.5zw@cup.hp.com>
- Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe
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- In <BzMvzA.5zw@cup.hp.com> wk@cup.hp.com (Wayne Krone) writes:
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- >I'm curious as to why you want to use a sector size different from the
- >default chosen by the disk vendor? And how many other folks reading
- >this want to do the same?
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- Isn't it true, that a larger physical sector size gives you
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- - better i/o throughput (if the driver supports it)
- - larger disk capacity
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- If one or both of the above can be archived with a larger physical sector
- size, everyone wants it ....
-
- hellmuth
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- hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe
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