Hi, On modern computer hardware this is impossible to know now. Most hard disk will do failing sector relocations so the same position can actually exist anywhere on the disk. James > -----Original Message----- > From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies- > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Libin Varghese > Sent: 29 January 2006 22:52 > To: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: API for Disk head position > > Hi all, > For most the Rotational Latency Reducing algorithms (SATF-Shortest > Access Time First) > <www.hpl.hp.com/research/ssp/papers/HPL-CSP-91-7rev1.pdf> we need to > know the Disk Head Position. Is there an API to find this? Mostly this > kind of API stuff most be given by the disk device driver. So does the > Hard Disk Driver in Linux provide such an API? > > Thanks for the information, > Libin Varghese. > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
