RE: Partitions

[Paul Sims <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

Long term the hdd is outa here - solid state devices will eventually take
over, but before then r/w high speed optical disks and the like will push
data capacities through the roof. Until Windows 2010 comes out..... Until
the industry abandons the backwards comapatability issue of DOS access to
large hdds, we're going to be saddled with archaic stuff like worrying
about disk geometries, translation etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Foz [SMTP:99969628 [at] mmu.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 1:06 PM
To: sheflug
Subject: Re: Partitions

sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk

Right...
> Are you talking about the notional difference between physical and
> logical, or the layout of partitions? Generally, if you look at hd
> technology, a lot of it is bodge on top of bodge on top of bodge held
> together with gaffer tape.

I thought as much, I just didn't want to say it. Do you think it is
possible to push the industry to redesign the hard drive?

Thanks

Paul Aspinall
Manchester Met. Uni

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