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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI disk sector translation - is it necessary?
Date: 10 Aug 1995 09:31:50 +0200
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<gary@kampai.euronet.nl> wrote:
>I've installed FreeBSD on my system (4Gb SCSI disk, Adaptec 2940),
>whilst sector translation was enabled. Apart from DAT backup
>restore problems, it works fine. Is there anything to be gained
>(performance wise) by disabling it?
Certainly not. Modern disk do not have a uniform geometry anyway,
and _all_ SCSI disks are being used in something that would count
as ``sector translation'' (since SCSI media are not addressed by
cylinders/heads/sectors at all, but by block numbers).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)