On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> I also noticed that this disk has a lower transfer rate than the others
> (I got a few media errors on it - maybe it has to retry some
> of the reads ...). 

	It may be having to seek to pick up remapped blocks - that would
	account for some areas of the disk having a lower rate. You could
	check if the slowdown is consistent across the disk, but that is
	probably more effort than its worth :)

		David/absolute

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