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From: niccum@cs.umn.edu (Thomas M. Niccum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: WD-7000:  Worth something after all
Summary: WD-7000 Setup cures superslow performance
Keywords: Faster
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.181849.16890@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 90 18:18:49 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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First, Thanks for all who replied via e-mail.  The mail was about
split, 50% had same or similar problem, 50% thought it was a great product,
and what are you complaining for.

Anyway, after more searching, I found in the SSTSETUP program, in the 
ADVANCED functions menu is the format option.  Pressing F1 for Help at
this point gives a lot of good info, including something like: Hey! Drive
running too slow? <120KBS???? Try reformatting using an interleave of 1.

Gee, wouldn't it be nice if stuff like this was indexed in the manual 
instead of in a pragraph in the 5th screen of help on the 4th menu option???

Anyway, I'm now getting ~1MBS serial read performance which is a bit more
satisfactory!

-Tom

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