Drums

From: Shawn T. Rutledge <rutledge_at_cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com>
Date: Tue Apr 18 11:37:05 2000

On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:33:15AM -0700, John Lawson wrote:
> Which is why we still refer to disk data structures as
> 'cylinders'... on the surface of a drum, that's the geometric shape
> they occupy.

Well the set of all the same-numbered tracks on a stack of hard drive
platters also form a cylinder... I thought that was the reason.

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