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From: wsdwgk@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Slow harddisk
Keywords: slow harddisk controller
Message-ID: <1291@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>
Date: 28 Nov 89 19:22:21 GMT
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Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Hello.

I recently bought a PC with a 30 meg harddisk, a Miniscribe 3438. 
The problem is that the harddisk-controller combination (a controller of
unknown origin) is very slow, coretest reports 25 K/s. First I believed
it was the interleave, but spinrite said it still needed 26-32 revolutions
to read one track at any interleave. There must be something wrong...
What is the problem, and what can be done about it ??

Greetings

guido