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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: My DMA SCSI question
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Date: 8 Aug 90 21:59:00 GMT
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Recently I asked why when I installed a new DMA SCSI card I noticed no
performance improvement.  So far the answers I have received are that I
should reformat the drive to 1:1, 2:1 or 4:1 (depending on who I talked
to.)  It was the tech guy at Quality Computers who said I should format
it at 4:1.  He didn't have a satisfactory answer to the question
 of why when I specified what it was being installed in, adn bought the
SCSI card at the same time, that the preformatting it came with wasn't
optimal.

ANYWAY, this is a two part question:  how can I find out what interleave
it is currently formatted at, and, how do I know definitively waht it
should be formatted at?  (repeating, its a CMS "MacSTack" 60M drive on
an Apple DMA SCSI card on a GS with an AE TWGS that has been upgraded to
work with DMA.)

TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil