> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 03:31:16 +0000 Derek Fountain 
<derekfountain@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Not so. Remember that it must seek to one partition, read, then seek to 
the other partition, and write.
> It's not random seek distances but .. it will suffice :)

Tis so :D

It will read ahead and buffer, and also buffer the writes.....

so instead of /\/\/\/\/\/\/\ (action of head across disk)

youll get 
 _________                 ___________
/         \_______________/

if you get the idea...... itll buffer the read, buffer a whole heap of 
writes, decide it really has to write the buffer, decide it needs to read 
again etc etc etc etc 

Modern HDs do all sorts of fancy things to 'go faster'(tm) and 'appear 
reliable'(tm)...  



