Minutes of SMR Study Group July 18, 2013
Gerry Houlder
gerry.houlder at seagate.com
Tue Jul 23 07:41:08 PDT 2013
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The meeting anad webex started at 3:30 pm on july 18. Those attending were:
Mr. Kevin Marks Dell, Inc.
Mr. David Black EMC Corporation
Mr. HengLiang Zhang Futurewei Technologies Inc
Mr. Curtis Ballard Hewlett-Packard Company
Mr. Rob Elliott Hewlett-Packard Company
Mr. Dan Colegrove HGST
Mr. Zvonimir Bandic HGST
Mr. Kevin Butt IBM Corporation
Mr. Pak-Lung Seto Intel Corporation
Mr. Hugh Curley KnowledgeTek Inc
Mr. John Lohmeyer LSI Corporation
Mr. Dave Uddenberg LSI Corporation
Mr. John Geldman Micron Technology Inc
Mr. Calvin Chen Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Frederick Knight NetApp
Mr. Ie-Wei Njoo PMC-Sierra
Mr. Keith Shaw PMC-Sierra
Mr. Tim Symons PMC-Sierra
Mr. Ric Wheeler Redhat
Mr. Ronald Dennison Research Development Consultants Inc
Mr. William Martin Samsung Semiconductor Inc (SSI)
Mr. Martin Czekalski Seagate Technology
Mr. Tim Feldman Seagate Technology
Mr. Jim Hatfield Seagate Technology
Mr. Gerald Houlder Seagate Technology
Mr. Martin Furuhjelm Seagate Technology
Mr. Mark Gaertner Seagate Technology
Mr. Joe Breher Synapse Design Automation
Mr. Patrick Hery Toshiba America Electronic Components
Mr. Albert Chen Western Digital Corporation
Mr. Takeaki Kato Western Digital Corporation
Mr. Curtis Stevens Western Digital Corporation
Mr. Ralph Weber Western Digital Corporation
Mr. Curtis Stevens Western Digital Corporation
Mr. Scott Watson Western Digital Corporation
Mr. Jim Malina Western Digital Corporation
Mr. William Boyle Western Digital Corporation
Mr. Alan Westbury Xyratex
Mr. Ron Dennison Consultant
Mr. Tim Emani
Mr. Garth Gibson
Mr. Alan Poston
The first presentation was by Dan Colegrove (HGST). His presentation is
shown in 13-186r0, posted on T10.org web site.
The second presentation was by Jim Malina (WD). His presentation is shown
in 13-184r0, posted on T10.org web site. This presentation explained the
benefits of defining a new device type for SMR disks instead of being a
sub-type of direct access devices.
Gerry Houlder (Seagate) disclosed plans to make an SMR presentation at
Linux Plumbers Conference (Sept. 18-20, New Orleans) and LinuxCon Europe
(Oct. 21-23, Scotland). The intend is to use information from the 3
presentations that have been publicly disclosed during SMR study group
meetings to date.
After the webex time completed, WD shows a live demo of a Linux host with
two drives that implement the interface recommended in their presentation.
One drive was a single zone and the other drive was a multi-zone
configuration.
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