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From: kleonard@gvlv1.gvl.unisys.com (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE drive physical format
Keywords: IDE, format, question
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Date: 4 Sep 90 19:35:01 GMT
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In article <148@thor.UUCP> scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
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* Of the [IDE] drives that can't be reformatted...
* ... For example,
* some IDE drives use a format that has more sectors on the outer
* tracks than on the inner tracks -- this is a fairly cheap way of
* increasing the capacity of the drive.
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So, If I make a small partition on the outer tracks, and a small
partition on the inner tracks, and run a decent disk-speed tester on
each partition, I may see a difference(s)?  Hummm....  Another
widget to snoop.
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Ken