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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: I/O and disks (was Re: 88000 vs 3081.)
Message-ID: <19616@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 89 00:55:10 GMT
References: <21962@cup.portal.com> <1989Sep12.031453.22947@wolves.uucp> <19595@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <19595@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote:
>(See the papers by Carson and Vongsathorn on adaptive disk rearrangement
>and other disk performance studies for some of the reasons for this.)

You can get both as TRs from UMCP, but only one is out in a journal,
as yet: a theoretical result on cylinder rearrangement.  It is in
Information Processing Letters, May 1989.  A paper with a study of
actual disk access patterns is `forthcoming' in Software P&E.
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