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From: scherer@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Scherer)
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Subject: Re: Some of Seagate's ST251-1's running at 40ms
Message-ID: <1827@nems.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 8 May 90 01:03:29 GMT
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In article <13489@ucsd.Edu> steve@wintermute.ucsd.edu ({Darkavich}) writes:
>In article <1806@nems.dt.navy.mil> scherer@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Doug Scherer) writ
>es:
>
>The first is to make sure you have a 1:1 interleave controller card in your
>computer.  If you do then you need to make sure that the hard drive was
>low-level formated with an interleave of 1:1.  If the former is not true
>then you need to buy a new controller card and re-low-level format the
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Steve Misrack >        steve@ucsd.edu


I appreciate your response but your confusing seek time and data through put.
  Interleaving does not affect seek time.  Seek time is how long it takes to
  get from cyl. A to cyl. B.   All the bench mark tests I ran calculate this
  for you.  Besides all that when I replaced the drive with another ST251-1
  the seek time went to 28ms from 48 with the same controller installed.