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From: bruce@ssc-vax.UUCP (Bruce Stock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Choosing the optimum interleave factor
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Date: 2 Oct 90 19:43:52 GMT
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This is not an answer to the original query, but my own experience with
setting interleave recently.  I ran two public domain interleave 
analyzer packages, both recommended a 2:1 interleave.  Both required that
I disable SMARTDRIVE (The Windows 3 disk cache) during the test.  However,
I found by actual reformating and benchmarking that an interleave of 3:1
gave me better performance when using SMARTDRIVE, which is my normal
configuration.  So the moral of the story is, be sure to test the config-
uration you are going to run, otherwise you may not get the optimum.