Best swap cylinders?

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

with a contemporary motherboard, why not buy a cheapo second IDE drive and
make it the second unit?

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>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:43:57 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Chuck Young <cyoung at bbnplanet.com>
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>Subject: Best swap cylinders?
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>We have a typical beer-pub discussion going on here tonight about which
>cylinders are the best to use for linux swap.  All other things being
>equal (on an IDE drive) would most of you rather have it in low numbered
>cyls (the beginning of the drive) or the high ones (/dev/hda4)?
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>I would assume one has a higher seek time on average and the other would
>be ideal for swap.  If true, which is it: hi or lo?
>
>Chuck Young
>GTE Internetworking Services
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