Support for shingled magnetic recording devices

The reason that some parts of the drive have to be written consecutively is that the magnetic domains are close enough to each other and our write head so large that there is a domino effect on the domains around the one we want to write.

I recall reading this at Anand Tech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7290/seagate-to-ship-5tb-hd...

K3n.