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From: fmcphers@VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU (Frank McPherson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Hard disk speed: A3000 w/Q105 and Q170.
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Date: 4 Dec 90 01:18:28 GMT
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There have been postings to usenet lately claiming levels of speed with 
quantum 105 meg drives which I didn't think I'd been getting.  I downloaded
DiskSpeed from the fish archives at an FTP site.  I've run the tests on my
Quantum 105, which is in the rear bay of my A3000UX.  I'm using whatever 
standard controller comes with the 3000.  The is partitioned this way:
9 meg as an AmigaDos partition, named System2.0:  The rest of that particular
disk has been scarfed up by Unix.  My question is basically this:  What are 
the ways of improving peformance of my hard disk?  I've defragmented the thing
by backing it up and restoring it, so that shouldn't be the problem.  When I
used to dabble in the PC world, there was a nifty little parameter called 
Interleave.  I have a pretty non-technical idea of what this is, I.E. I know
the explanation of how the tracks are seperated on the disk, etc.  Are there
any existing utilities on the Amiga for determining the optimum interleave
of a hard disk unit?  
If anyone is seriously interested in pursuing this thread farther, I can 
upload the results of my disk speed tests.  (By that time I'll have the 
results for the 105 and the 170 (170 is entirely amigados))  I'd REALLY like
to find out more about this.  Thanks!

-- Frank McPherson                  INTERNET: fmcphers@vttcf.cc.vt.edu --