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From: mentor@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Rodney K Rickenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard Drive On 1000 Interleave problems
Summary: Non optimum interleave
Keywords: Hard drive interleave drool
Message-ID: <4842@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 29 Oct 89 19:50:07 GMT
Reply-To: mentor@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Rodney K Rickenbach)
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I have a 1000 w/ a Supra SCSI interface going to a 72 meg Priam drive (MFM)
using an Adaptec controller.  Anyway, the Supra-format util. didn't have
my drive's specs, so I had to enter them by hand - including the interleave.
I kinda guestimated, and well, using diskperf I have found a throughput of
around 45K/sec.  Is there any easy way to find the optimum interleave (ie
a program) or do I have to keep re-formatting the drive and using Diskperf?
Any Idea of what kind of thruput I should be getting on something like this?
(the Priam has an 18ms access time and I am using FFS)

ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx much
-Rod


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