> Track-to-track seek speeds are not directional, but inter-sector
> speeds are and since the algorithm has no information on physical
> disk geometry, it cannot distinguish whether two sectors are on
> the same track or not.
Right now this isn't an issue - but it time it will perhaps become
one. Disks are almost certainly going to become much faster and much
larger in the next few years, but seek-times are not.
-cw
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