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From: phys169@canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Choosing the optimum interleave factor
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.113019.9222@canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 24 Sep 90 02:24:09 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury
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What affects the speed of reading data off a hard disk? That is, if I run some
program that works out the optimum interleave for a computer/controller/disk
combination, what could make it non-optimum (e.g. changing CPU speed, running
some TSR's, etc)??

Also, it is possible to determine the best interleave without actually writing
to the disk (purely from timing of reading what is there)?

Mark Aitchison, Physics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.