File System and ZBR drives
Alan Barclay
alan at ukpoit.co.uk
Fri May 3 19:32:30 AEST 1991
In article <67930001 at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> balon at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Tom Balon) writes:
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> How do different versions of unix deal with new ZBR (Zone Bit
> Recording)) style disk drives. These drives are divided into
> several zones with a different number of sectors/track in each
> zone.
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For what I've worked out it the controller for these drives do sector
translation, so the OS sees a disk with normal fixed sectors per track.
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