Hi,

I'm trying to find some technical info re serpentine seek technology which
is apparently now used in some disk drives. Western Digital apparently use
"serpentine seek" technology in some of their drives. I believe this is the
same track ordering that is described here:
http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php...e&pid=46&page=4

Can anyone point me to some good technical info on serpentine seek/track
layout ? I'd like to understand why it is used over "conventional" track
layouts where adjacent tracks form a cylinder (e.g. to me, serpentine track
ordering implies that it is faster to seek to the next track on the same
surface, than to switch heads to the next track on the same cylinder).

Thanks for any and all help....

Regards,

David Kelly

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