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From: boblu@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Robert Luneski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: hard drives
Message-ID: <7062@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 90 15:53:53 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.014112.6251@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1990Dec14.172830.14752@uvm.edu>
Reply-To: boblu@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Robert Luneski)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1990Dec14.172830.14752@uvm.edu> pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) writes:
>I'm interested, (I'd like to run my 296N with 1-1 interleave 8-)
>but I have several questions:

You do not want to run a Seagate 296N at 1-1 because the disk transfer rate
is less than 90 kb/sec at that interleave.  Formatting it at 2-1 interleave
raises the transfer rate to over 430 kb/sec.  It's like using a different
disk.  I bought one when they first came on the market and formatted it
at 1-1 and was shocked to find that my 28 ms disk was sooooo slooooooooow.

>
>Bob Pegram

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