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From: garee@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Scott Garee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Speeding up a Tandy and VGA
Keywords: VGA Tandy 1000TL TL CPU Speed
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.222911.15223@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 90 22:29:11 GMT
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>  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

What did it say when it was "stumped"?  All of our controllers are WD's,
so I don't think there is a problem there.  I have had some problems
with Seagate drives purchased from cut rate discounters.  Evidently
Seagate sells these guys drives from the bottom of the quality heap.
But the problems were obvious media problems which showed up under
normal use as well.  Are you running a cache?  SR doesn't like them
much.  I usually boot from a clean (no AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS)
floppy before running ANY hardware utilities.
An intersting note:  I have seen Norton's 5.0 and SPINRITE return
DIFFERENT optimum interleaves on the SAME drive!  Just goes to show that
all things ARE relative!

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