Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!skat.usc.edu!mbaffoni From: mbaffoni@skat.usc.edu (Michael Baffoni) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Info-Atari16 Digest V89 #462 Message-ID: <19874@usc.edu> Date: 14 Sep 89 06:04:14 GMT References: <8909131714.AA16460@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@usc.edu Reply-To: mbaffoni@skat.usc.edu (Michael Baffoni) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 34 In article <8909131714.AA16460@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> TW6PSANU@MIAMIU.BITNET (Todd Whitehead) writes: >re: Hard drive defragger [Stuff deleted] >The next week I bought Hard Drive Turbo Kit, and checked my disk structure, >got NO errors and optimized my hard drive, all three partitions, in ^^^^^^^^^ When you say it optimized your drive, did it do more than just replace files into a contiguous structure on the disk? Like did it check the performance of the disk controller/computer limit to give it the best interleave on the disk? Or is your disk interleaved at 1:1 so you don't have to worry about it? :) The reason I ask is that I have used a program on IBMs called "IAU.COM" ("Interleave Adjustment Utility") that checks for the best interleave factor for the computer setup that you are using...like it uses an iterleave of 4:1 for most XTs, while turbos and ATs usually use 3:1, etc... And if you have no Idea what I am talking about, does someone else out there have any (constructive) comments on the subject...? > >Todd Whitehead >Miami University >Oxford, Ohio Mike Baffoni mbaffoni@skat.usc.edu or mbaffoni@castor.usc.edu or baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (but the "r" or "f" command is sooooo much easier....) USC: a school where 85% of the students recieve financial aide...at $20,000 a year, I can't imagine why. And you'd think that with all those students that they'd be able to get mine right...even just once.... My comments are mine. If you hear them coming out of YOUR mouth, then I suggest you get an excorcist.