CompuServe Messages

Dean: I might also add that it's not quite right to say T-Cal is done on all drives. There is a move now toward what are called embedded servo drives. These drives will keep reference information on each of the platters and therefore eliminate the need for all platters to be reference or calibrated to a single platter. One can make an argument that this inceases the overhead and therefore decreases performance and that as long as T-Cal is postponable, there's no reason to not do it. None-the-less, it has been suggested to me that since T-Cal has such a negative stigma, that the industry is likely to move to embedded servo anyway. Jeff Sauer