Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: 80 mb RLL 28ms Micropolis Drive much slower than Seagate ST251 MFM 28 ms 40MB Keywords: performance, I/O Message-ID: <4513@bwdls58.UUCP> Date: 10 Oct 90 18:13:27 GMT References: <15946@shlump.nac.dec.com> Sender: mlord@bwdls58.UUCP Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 22 In article <15946@shlump.nac.dec.com> heintze@fmcsse.enet.dec.com (Siegfried Heintze) writes: ...woes of a new drive being slower than the old... >This might be a controller problem. I'm not sure I understand the concept of >interleaving >as it applies to controllers. An explanation would be welcome. Terry said this >was not likely to be a problem with interleaving although I believe I do not Sure does sound like interleave. Grab the following program from Simtel20 and try it out on your system: PD1: IAU19D.ARC B 87549 890818 Nondestructive hard disk interleave adjuster Or use the equivalent functions of SPEDSTOR, SPINRITE, or NORTON-5.0. -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|