Seagate Archive HDD

[O'Connor, Daniel]

> On 27 Mar 2015, at 11:28, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> So - is anyone planning on working on the minimum set of stuff to
> expose the write topology for these shingled disks, so experiments can
> start being made?
> 
> Even just knowing the shingle size(s) for writes would be enough to do
> useful amounts of work from userspace.

The presentation suggests it's all hidden and there's no public way to find it out.

So like the whole 4k farrago again :(

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