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From: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Speeding up a Tandy and VGA
Keywords: VGA Tandy 1000TL TL CPU Speed
Message-ID: <6510@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 90 21:49:52 GMT
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>You should also try running a hard disk reformatter (SPINRITE or
>NORTON's 5.0)  They will choose the optimum interleave for the drive,
>which is almost always different that the way it was formatted, and
>reformat it WITHOUT destroying any data.  They will also tell tou all
>kinds of neat, useless things about your drive.  Drive speed can often
>be increased by several hundred percent.
>

  I've personally tried the latest version of Spinrite, with no success.
  While the program claims that it has been improved to handle RLL drives,
  it was still stumped by my hard drive configuration. (Western Digital
  controller w/30Mb Seagate disk).  Does anyone know if this is a hard drive
  problem or a Tandy problem (i.e. bios, etc)?  Haven't tried Norton (yet


  Bob Beauchaine
  bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM