In article <877k4cs5ht.fsf@snark.piermont.com>,
	"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> Have you tried benchmarking that lately? I suspect you would be hard
> pressed to find much effect on a modern drive.

You are wrong about that. The german computer magazin c't publishes
harddisk zone tests every few month. And even the latest disks are
still faster on outermost cylinders.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/