On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:03:17PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > - less moving of the heads is generally faster as it takes too long > to move the head relative to just reading data How long is exactly to move the head from outside to the center? Long ago, I tinkered with moving the swap partition inside/outside, but now I believe that the difference is hardly noticeable. Oki