I am used to bad translations from Chinese, but this is different:

Does it use CHS addressing? If so, how does it advance to the next sector if it's a (literally) "fixed" disk? ;-)

Tim

-- Deep Friar: a very philosophical monk. Website:

LOL. Search and replace "disk drive" -> "solid state disk drive" ? ;-) Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

There are no vacuum tubes in a hard drive, so it is a solid state device. ;-)

wot! no pulleys, gears, or water wheels? must be correct then. I read it on the web.

Don...

Someone told them that "solid state disk" means "small disk"?

Is this really true even for the usual hard drives?

I routinely (carefully) transport my laptop while it's on. Bad idea?

Michael

But it depends on a layer of non-solid air to fly the heads over the disks.

Yes.

I've had a laptop with an accelerometer - it parks the heads when it senses acceleration.

Lack of acceleration, I should think. It would normally measure 1g (upward), but in free fall that would be just about exactly cancelled by the accleration of the laptop (downward) toward the floor.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Maybe - it actually measured the direction as well as magnitude, IIRC. You could pick it up and turn it about, and I think there was a little picture of the laptop that followed the orientation. Can't remember exactly now, it came with vista which only lasted a couple of hours before I stuck linux on it.

Sure, probably a 3-axis acclerometer.

It may have done both- if the laptop was being jostled OR in free fall, then park the heads for a bit until the turbulence or weightlessness goes away for a while.

Just wait until they start making a $5 6-degree-of-freedom IMU-on-a-chip. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

...and the computer i made with relays is also solid state...