Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!drivax!liberato From: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Added 386 accelerator to XT, hard drive slows down. Why? Message-ID: Date: 16 Jul 90 04:45:19 GMT Reply-To: liberato%drivax@uunet.uu.net (Jimmy Liberato) Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey, California Lines: 12 When I install a SOTA 386si (366sx) accelerator into various XT class machines the ideal hard drive interleave factor (as reported by Spinrite) suddenly jumps up, generally from about 4 to 7. Now I know that the wait states involved in accessing slow 8 bit memory are pretty extreme but why would there be any effect on the drive and controller? This happens on three unrelated 8088 machines. Is there something I'm missing here? Any comments are appreciated. -- Jimmy Liberato liberato%drivax@uunet.uu.net {uunet|amdahl}!drivax!liberato